Full details for Compilation and Installation in Raspbian Or OSMC

NOTE: Support for MMAL and OMX was deprecated in Raspi OS Bullseye and the required libraries consequently removed from the OS. These instructions should still work for a wide variety of platforms, including any version of Pi running RaspiOS Buster or generic x86 hardware running Debian.

A lot of people are having problems in compiling and installing moonlight-embedded from source. Based on the instructions from this post:

1. Supposingly you do have latest Raspbian image already installed (Raspbian can be found here: https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/) - first of all - make sure you uninstall previous moonlight-embedded version (if installed):

sudo apt-get purge moonlight-embedded

2. Then you have to:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install git libopus0 libexpat1 libasound2 libudev1 libavahi-client3 libcurl4 libevdev2 libssl-dev libopus-dev libasound2-dev libudev-dev libavahi-client-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libevdev-dev libexpat1-dev libpulse-dev uuid-dev cmake make gcc g++

3. Also, if you have OSMC:

• for Pi (2-4)

sudo apt-get install rbp2-userland-dev-osmc

• for Vero4k(+)

sudo apt-get install vero3-userland-dev-osmc libamcodec-dev-osmc

• Or if you have Raspbian:

sudo apt-get install libraspberrypi-dev

4. For X11/SDL/etc support (or a generic x86 PC) you might also want any of:

sudo apt-get install libavcodec-dev libavutil-dev libcec-dev libp8-platform-dev libsdl2-dev libva-dev libvdpau-dev

5. Then download the moonlight-embedded sources, compile and install it with these commands:

git clone https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-embedded.git
cd moonlight-embedded
git submodule update --init --recursive
mkdir build
cd build/
cmake ../
make -j$(nproc)
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

6. Lastly, reboot your machine for all the changes to take effect:

sudo shutdown -r now