Native KinAMP - it really whimps the llama's ass!

[kbarni]

Great, thanks a lot! I also managed to build it for PW2 thanks to the files you sent!
I'm preparing a few more improvements and I'll publish in a few days version 1.3.

About the GStreamer warning, I also get it on my device, it shouldn't be a problem. Anyway, it's not related to music playback.

[kbarni]

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[bozza111]

Originally Posted by TQHYG

I’ve gone through a lot of strange experiments, so I wanted to document what finally worked for me in case it helps someone else.

First, I set up the basic KOX toolchain following the usual instructions. When configuring the sysroot, I modified the download URL so it would pull the KOA firmware instead. After that, I tried copying the header files that were provided into my sysroot. However, compiling directly with those headers resulted in GLIBC version mismatch errors.

Because of that, I decided to build GStreamer myself. I downloaded the KOA source packages from Amazon, then built and installed libffi and glib2.0 into the sysroot. After that, I built and installed GStreamer (also into the sysroot). Once those were in place, I copied the provided headers into the sysroot again — and this time the compilation succeeded without any GLIBC complaints.

Hopefully this information is useful to someone running into the same issues.

I’ll also attach the packaged sysroot and the compiled binaries from my toolchain. They run on my Kindle, although I’m not yet sure whether audio output is actually working.

The forum attachment system doesn’t seem to allow files that large, so I’m sharing them through a Google Drive link.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CX_...ew?usp=sharing

Please note that my sysroot may contain some hard‑coded absolute paths, so I can’t guarantee it will work out of the box.

Is there any chance that you can launch a GitHub repo for the soft float version of KinAMP?

[TQHYG]

Originally Posted by bozza111

Is there any chance that you can launch a GitHub repo for the soft float version of KinAMP?

I didn’t modify the original author’s code — I only tried compiling it myself. You suggested that I should create a separate repository for it, but that feels a bit unnecessary to me. The original author also mentioned that they plan to add build instructions and provide armel binaries later, so I’d rather wait for their official update.

If there’s anything else you’d like me to test or help with, I’m happy to do so.

The original author hasn’t released the armel binaries yet, but if you’re looking for them, you can use the armel build I posted earlier. Just replace the two corresponding files inside the original release archive with the ones I provided.
You can find the download link here:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...2&postcount=14

[kbarni]

Yes, I've been waiting for some help developing a Koreader plugin before releasing the next version. But I think I'll do a small update this weekend with armel+armhf combined + a few small changes.

Hope I'll do a bigger release in a few weeks.

Until then use TQHYG's soft float version.

As he said, you don't need to fork the kinamp repo. Just add the sysroot he posted to your PW2 toolchain and build it using the provided instructions.

[kbarni]

Version 2.0 released

This is an important update, adds radio streaming support and Koreader integration.

Download it from Github!

[Frogm4n]

Oh, those are some great new features!

[Frogm4n]

It would not launch for me on a Scribe 2022. The screen flashes and returns to the Home tab. I tried running it from kterm, and got terminal output from the startkinamp.sh script:

./KinAMP: libs_hf/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.35' not found (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
./KinAMP: libs_hf/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.35' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6)

That looked like what happens with LARK, so I did that fix and the player works now. I can only launch the radio editor from kterm, though. Also, it was not finding the stations I wanted so I manually added them to the .kinamp_radio.txt file based on what url VLC uses and it worked.

Thanks!

[kbarni]

Thanks for reporting this libm problem. What device are you using? How did you solve this, by removing the file?
Anyway, this is strange, some kindles need this library (and don't complain about the glibc version) other Kindle variants don't need it.