
The script will check if you have Ninja installed and if not, will fall back to using cmake. There is a new option to use Ninja to build Kodi for you. You can now use Ninja and optimise the build for your CPU The now includes "MY_GIT_VERSION" that gives you the option to make this screen look like I've created a patch that lets you define your own, personalized string in the System information screen. It will then ask you if you also want to compile the binary-addons later. If it's not there, it will ask you if you want it to clone the source from Github. The script will first check to see if you have the Kodi Leia source in the directory specified in etc/. There may be a lot of bugs until the next version is released. If you want to be on the cutting-edge, you can download the master branch.


Then you'll have to edit the PREFIX setting and remove the sudo commands from the script.

I wrote this script to automate the compilation of Kodi on my Linux system.

This is a complete hack to fetch(clone), update(pull), compile and install Kodi from source on Linux. Build.leia - A shell script to build Kodi 18 Leia from source Description
