helmuthb/wdpksrc repository overview

⁠ANNOUNCEMENT AUG 2020

I (Stefaan / TFL) am refactoring this repo for compatibility with OS5. Please use issues tab if something is broken.

Several OS5 packages are now available on CloudSmith⁠. The wdcommunity website is still to be updated.

⁠wdpksrc

This project contains the source and tools for software packages for Western Digital My Cloud (OS3) NAS devices. The packages are made available via the WDCommunity website⁠. Most of the packages are simply scripts to fetch the applications from the official sources and configure them with a sensible default. Only a few packages were compiled with the OS3 toolchain with the help of the SynoCommunity⁠ project tools.

Most of the packages are published on the WD community forum_ in their own thread. Use the search bar.

⁠Setup Development Environment

⁠mksapkg setup

For simple script based apps (most of the current packages), you only need mksapkg to create a binary.

On Ubuntu 18.04:

.. code::

apt-get install libxml2 openssl

⁠Docker

The build environment is also available in a docker image.

.. code::

docker build -t wdpk .    
docker run -it -v $(pwd):/wdpksrc wdpk /bin/bash    
cd wdpk/<somepackage>    
./build.sh

⁠Build and deploy test

.. code::

./build_and_install.sh  <package>  <host>

This builds the package, installs it on a PR4100 host device and runs a sanity check if a test is available.

⁠Native apps

If you want to compile native apps, you'll need a complete wdpksrc / spksrc toolchain.

Currently, these custom WD targets are available in this SynoCommunity fork_

• wdx64 - WD PR2100/PR4100/DL2100/DL4100
• wdpro - WD PR2100 / PR4100 with 4.1.9 kernel
• wddl - WD DL2100 / DL4100 with 3.10.28 kernel
• wdarm - all other devices (firmware version 2.x only!)

UPDATE: it now creates WD binary packages right away.

• add xor_checksum to your PATH (copy it to /usr/local/bin)
• cd wdpk/someapp
• make apkg-wdarm
• packages are available in packages directory

Some installer script changes might be necessary.

⁠Hosting

Package repository hosting is graciously provided by Cloudsmith⁠. Cloudsmith is the only fully hosted, cloud-native, universal package management solution, that enables your organization to create, store and share packages in any format, to any place, with total confidence.

⁠Donate

Thanks, but I'm good. Feel free to donate to these other projects instead

• Allester Fox⁠
• • SynoCommunity⁠ project
• some charity

⁠License

When not explicitly set, files are placed under a 3 clause BSD license⁠