Comments on: Compiling MPlayer on Mac OS X Tiger

By: Nagilum

Nagilum — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 21:43:48 +0000

Hi,
I just played around with the mplayer source a bit trying to get it to compile with x264 support and like to share my findings.
First off, mplayer desires to use gcc-3.3, so if you intend to use any extension such as x264, I suggest you use “gcc_select 3.3″ upfront to builing any of these.
“configure” will fail to build the x264 test unless you add -lSystemStubs to the compile flags. I did this by searching for “-lx264″ in the configure script and adding it there.
After the first run I got linker errors:
multiple definitions of symbol _glPointParameteri
and such.. which I tried to silence using “-Xlinker -multiply_defined -assert -Xlinker suppress” and also its -Wl, counterpart, but that didnt work. So I resolved that matter with –disable-gl . After that I still had some unresolved symbols all starting with _pp_. These I found in a library (libpostproc) in one of the ffmpeg subdirs. I compiled the lib and linked against it.
Now I had two rather huge binaries (about 14MB) which I could strip down to about 5MB.
Unfortunately it isnt a happy ending yet, I only own a G3 and I keep getting:
dyld: incompatible cpu-subtype
Trace/BPT trap
despite I used –disable-altivec for ffmpeg :-/.
I hope I find it before my motivation runs out

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 02:18:31 +0000

You can find the step-by-step process I used here

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 01:31:06 +0000

Hey, after getting you guys’ comments I decided to build mplayer from a clean base, with the latest Apple toolchain, to see if I could replicate your issues.

I built MPlayer dev-CVS-051205-00:59-4.0.1 successfully from a clean checkout of mplayer, ffmpeg (libavcodec, libavformat, libavutil) and even managed to include VC-1 support just fine.

I’ll post up a full and complete process on how to build from scratch successfully, and hopefully that should help you out.

By: Alexander Wehr

Alexander Wehr — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 16:11:35 +0000

Whatever bug it was with the ld: error, it seems to have returned.

attempts with the recent cvs raise the same error from your previous entry on this subject. Alas, i don’t have the funds at present to install X.3 on an external disk like Firas here ; ).

By: Firas

Firas — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 14:54:51 +0000

Hi,

I found your blog about using compiling MPlayer/MEncoder, and would like to shed my stresses on the matter. I have tried to get MPlayer compiled on Tiger too, without avail - I too had to remove the dust off my 10.3 DVD and re-install on an sexternal disk to get MPlaeyer to compile.

I have a feeling it could be something to do with gcc