Most NAS devices run on the ARM CPUs because of the lower cost and power needs, which in turn requires a ARM toolchain.Ī few years back, we also expanded the server’s role to actually run inside our mobile clients as well. After this, Linux support was added and that opened the door for running the media server on NAS devices, which led to ARM support. Windows support was the first one that was added after macOS and it brought in support for Visual Studio. Back then it was only built for macOS (well, “OS X”, back then) and did only a fraction of what the server can do today.Īs the server grew, we expanded not only the functionality, but also the number of platforms we built for and ran on. The first commit by Elan was on the September 20, 2008. The C++ code base is around 11 years old. 1 hour 15 minutes: roughly how long it takes to build all configurations for a release.6: number of platforms we ship on (Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, FreeBSD).

50: number of third party dependencies needed to build the server.292764: number of lines in those source files.1122: number of source files in the repository.The Plex Media Server is a huge C++ codebase with many dependencies, which ships on many different devices and platforms. TL DR: With the release of Plex Media Server version 1.15.0 we now build with LLVM Clang (except Windows) and manage our dependencies with Conan. Since we know many of you are interested in what goes on behind the scenes, we decided this was a great opportunity to lift the curtain a bit, get geeky, and talk about compilers and toolchains. We’ve been working on some big changes with regards to how we build Plex Media Server. Preparing Plex Media Server for the next 10 years

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