Plugin installation
The installation instruction of all plugins is basically the same. For specialties see the particual plugins description. But the last instance is always the README file of the plugin.
Installation
The variable $SOURCEDIR stands for the directory where all the sources archives should be decompressed. Common directories are /usr/local/src, /usr/src and the home directory of the user.
The variable $PLUGIN_NAME stands for name of the plugin that is to be installed.
After the plugin sources have been downloaded from the internet, change to the PLUGINS/src directory of VDR
cd $SOURCEDIR/vdr/PLUGINS/src
and decompress the archive.
If it is a BZIP2 archive (*.tar.bz2), use
tar -jxvf /path/to/vdr-$PLUGIN_NAME-<VERSION>.tar.bz2
If it is a GZIP archive (*.tgz, *.tar.gz), use
tar -zxvf /path/to/vdr-$PLUGIN_NAME-<VERSION>.{tgz,tar.gz}
Finally, a symbolic link to the plugin name without the version number is to be created
ln -s $PLUGIN_NAME-<VERSION> $PLUGIN_NAME
These instruction assume that the author of the plugin sticks with the naming conventions for VDR plugins. Unfortunately, this is not always the case.
VDR only compiles plugins in directories without version numbers and prefixes like vdr- or plugin-. (Attention: vdrcd is correct, but vdr-cd not).
These instruction also assume that the main vdr directory has been patched by the new user according to the relevant recommandation provided within each README or INSTALL plugin file.
You should take into notice that usually there is a patch(es) directory provided within plugins. And you are pretty often expected to patch your main vdr directory with some of those patches.
Change to the VDR root directory and compile the plugins
cd ../.. make plugins
After everything has been compiled without errors, copy the plugins to their target directory
cp PLUGINS/lib/* /usr/lib/vdr
And last but not least you have to add the plugin to the vdr start command
vdr ....... -P<plugin name> ....
The vdr start command can be found in runvdr, vdrstart, or an other script file depending on the distribution you are using.
For developers
Sinngemäß entsprechend ../VDR/PLUGINS.html: An extract of ../VDR/PLUGINS.html
Erstellen eines Plugin-Pakets
If you want to make your plugin available to other VDR users, you'll need to make a package that can be easily distributed. The 'Makefile' that has been created by the call to newplugin provides the target 'dist', which does this for you. Simply change into your source directory and execute 'make dist': cd VDR/PLUGINS/src/hello make dist After this you should find a file named like vdr-hello-0.0.1.tgz in your source directory, where 'hello' will be replaced with your actual plugin's name, and '0.0.1' will be your plugin's current version number.