DSM 7

PLEASE consider: DSM 7 is not officially released yet. The beta release is available since December 08 2020 and there will (hopefully) be a Release Candidate (RC 1) in the near future. We expect an official Release of DSM 7 by Synology later in 2021 (be not surprised when DSM 7 is not officially released before summer 2021).

In SynoCommunity only few DSM 7 compatible packages released yet.

• Despite you see packages of SynoCommunity in the Package Center of your Diskstation with DSM 7, most of the packages are not compatible with DSM 7.
• PLEASE do not create issues saying that package xy cannot be installed on DSM 7.
• All packages not yet ported to DSM 7 will refuse the installation with a message about "package requires root privileges".
• We have the framework part of the DSM 7 branch merged and the issue #4524 created that gives an overview of the packages, whether available for DSM 7 or not.
• We also have started to publish some packages for DSM 7. Please regard those as beta versions (the synocommunity package repository is not capable to declare packages as beta only for DSM 7).
• If you want to try preview versions of packages for DSM 7 that are built on the master branch, you can find artifacts of the related github actions for manual download and installation (all artifacts are packed into one zip archive).
• You are welcome to contribute: create your branch and try to build and test the installation of your favorite package and give related feedback. This will shorten the time from official DSM 7 release until the package is available in the SynoCommunity Package Center for download.
• As this is a community project where people spend there spare time for contribution, it may take a long time until most of the packages are ported to DSM 7. (There are still packages here that are not ported from DSM 5 to DSM 6 yet).

spksrc

spksrc is a cross compilation framework intended to compile and package software for Synology NAS devices. Packages are made available via the SynoCommunity repository.

Contributing

Before opening a new issue, check the FAQ and search open issues. If you can't find an answer, or if you want to open a package request, read CONTRIBUTING to make sure you include all the information needed for contributors to handle your request.

Setup Development Environment

Docker

• Fork and clone spksrc: git clone https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/spksrc ~/spksrc
• Install Docker on your host OS: Docker installation. A wget-based alternative for linux: Install Docker with wget.
• Download the spksrc docker container: docker pull synocommunity/spksrc
• Run the container with docker run -it -v ~/spksrc:/spksrc synocommunity/spksrc /bin/bash. On Mac hosts running OSX you might need to use fakeroot with tar to avoid permission errors while extracting the synology toolchain archives. For that reason run the container with docker run -it -v~/spksrc:/spksrc -e TAR_CMD="fakeroot tar" synocommunity/spksrc /bin/bash.

Virtual machine

A virtual machine based on an 64-bit version of Debian 10 stable OS is recommended. Non-x86 architectures are not supported.

• Install the requirements (in sync with Dockerfile):

  sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 && sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt update
  sudo apt install autoconf-archive autogen automake bc bison build-essential check cmake curl cython debootstrap ed expect fakeroot flex g++-multilib gawk gettext git gperf imagemagick intltool jq libbz2-dev libc6-i386 libcppunit-dev libffi-dev libgc-dev libgmp3-dev libltdl-dev libmount-dev libncurses-dev libpcre3-dev libssl-dev libtool libunistring-dev lzip mercurial ncurses-dev ninja-build php pkg-config python3 python3-distutils rename scons subversion swig texinfo unzip xmlto zlib1g-dev
  wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/2.7/get-pip.py -O - | sudo python2
  sudo pip2 install wheel httpie
  wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -O - | sudo python3
  sudo pip3 install meson==0.56.0
  

• You may need to install some packages from testing like autoconf. Read about Apt-Pinning to know how to do that.

• Some older toolchains may require 32-bit development versions of packages, e.g. zlib1g-dev:i386

Usage

Once you have a development environment set up, you can start building packages, create new ones, or improve upon existing packages while making your changes available to other people. See the Developers HOW TO for information on how to use spksrc.

Donate

To support SynoCommunity, you can make a donation to its founder

License

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