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Build instruction missing dosfstools
Hey, just a quick note, the build page on the wiki doesnt mention that mkfs.vfat is needed to build the image - whilst minor, would be good to add a simple line like install it with "apt install dosfstools" on a debian-like system. alternatively, build.sh could be fixed to check for mkfs.vfat and install the package automatically...
What was your build environment and which setup instructions did you use? (OS version, etc)
I just checked sever boxen running Ubuntu 20.04 and earlier, all had mkfs.vfat. Checked Debian Bullseye (11) and no installed mkfs.vfat exfat or fat... Must be a new 'feature'. Checking other versions, but will take a bit. When I confirm the issue, I will modify the docs.
I seem to recall discussion about the DebDevs including a new version of exfat support directly in the kernel, will have to check that too, to see if that causes issues. I know there are issues RPiFoundation still hasn't gotten resolved with Pi-Gen and 32 vs 64 bit build environments and newer versions of Debian.
Hey, running debian buster, dosfstools wasn't installed by default, then again I only installed the minimum os and took care of X11 myself. I used the build instructions from the wiki and pulled the source from git repo(because the archived tarball wouldn't build, the kernel and i was too lazy to go into it, i only needed to add wire guard however just changing the kernel on the downloadable image did result in a boot loop bc wifi wouldn't come up and i didn't have time to fix that). I built the image on the raspberry pi platform with a pi zero w as destination.
Interesting, and I wouldn't be surprised a lot of stuff is missing from a minimal Debian on Pi. Out of curiosity, do you remember the build time?
Err, i cross compiled from a PC, I should have probably clarified that. Build time was around 60 min on that, but since I do have the resources available I can do a build on a pi as well.
"I built the image on the raspberry pi platform with a pi zero w as destination." confuse(s)(d) me... I thought you were saying "debian buster, dosfstools wasn't installed by default, then again I only installed the minimum os and took care of X11 myself" on the Pi. So you were doing Buster (Lite/server) on X64 cross compiling to PiZeroW?
Exactly - i mentioned raspberry pi platform as the build target(since the zero w is included in it). Either way, buster doesn't install dosfstools on default, i just checked by installing a clean instance in VMware with all installer defaults.
Clean install of debian 10 buster with all installer defaults(sets up x and some ugly wm). Does not come with the dosfstools package by default.
Changed the documentation at https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos/wiki/Building-From-Source to include dosfstools, and recommend menuconfig (ncurses) for Debian derivatives. Confirmed operation with PiZero image creation. If a user goes to the BuildRoot manual link, they can see QT5 and GTK configuration are still available if using an xserver.