Myth on Mac - Build status
If you are trying to build MythTV from source, you are usually trying to build a frontend to match a Linux backend. This means you need to build a compatible version. e.g. if the backend is MythTV-0.21, then try to build the same Mac frontend version, or maybe the latest version of that source code branch - MythTV-0.21-fixes.
The developers usually keep these branches very stable, so they should build on most Mac OS versions. However, building the latest and greatest - trunk - may be a little more difficult, depending on what changes have been committed recently, and how hostile they are to Mac OS X and Windows.
This document is trying to be a whiteboard of peoples’ building successes and failures.
Contents
MythTV 0.15.1, 0.16
Nigel has a tarball of those source trees that used to compile on 10.2 and 10.3 machines (of course, PowerPC only). 10.2 also required dlcompat to be installed. (rough 10.2 build instructions here)
MythTV 0.17, 0.18, 0.19
0.17 was the first release to compile “out of the box” on a Mac. I think these were 10.3 only.
MythTV 0.20
The first release to compile on an Intel Mac. The Myth_on_Mac_x86 page lists many of the historical gorey details involved in getting there.
MythTV 0.21 (and -fixes)
| OS | Arch. | XCode rev. | SVN rev. | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10.3.9 | PPC G3 | ??? | 16658 | working? |
| 10.3.9 | PPC G4 | 1.5 | 16658 | working? |
| 10.3.9 | PPC G4 | 1.5 | 20866 | Packager fails to build libfaad. Comment faad out of everywhere, and the build finishes, but gives a memory fault (in QString constructor) when running. |
| 10.4.11 | Intel | ??? | 20622, 21006 | Working |
MythTV 0.22 (and -fixes)
| OS | Arch. | XCode rev. | SVN rev. | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10.3.9 | PPC G4 | 1.1 or 1.5 | 22600 | faad2 fill not build, Qt 4.4 will not build, MythTV will probably not build |
| 10.4.11 | Intel Core Duo | 2.5 | 0.22-fixes | Silently fails to write a Makefile |
| 10.5.6 | Intel Core 2 Duo | 3.1.1 | ??? | Working? |
| 10.6.1 | Intel Core Duo | 3.2 | ??? | Not building (*_mmx.c compile errors - not enough registers, probably a compiler bug). Need to force 32-bit #7519. |
MythTV trunk
| OS | Arch. | XCode rev. | SVN rev. | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10.3.9 | PPC G4 | 1.1 or 1.5 | 20790, 21006 | Qt 4.4 will not build (no WebKit). Adding -webkit to qt-4.4 config in osx-packager.pl gets it some of the way, but fails compiling concurrent/qtconcurrentthreadengine.cpp |
| 10.4.11 | Intel Core Duo | 2.5 | 20790 | Working build. Runtime error when loading plugins. |
| 10.5.6 | Intel Core 2 Duo | 3.0 | 20844 | Fails to link libmythavcodec:
ld: absolute addressing (perhaps -mdynamic-no-pic) used in _ff_flac_compute_autocorr_sse2 from flacdsp_mmx.o not allowed in slidable image |
| 10.5.6 | Intel Core 2 Duo | 3.1.1 | 20844, 21000, 22597 | Working |
| 10.6.1 | Intel Core Duo | 3.2 | 22617 | Not building (*_mmx.c compile errors - not enough registers, probably a compiler bug) |
| 10.6.2 | Intel Core Duo | 3.2.1 | 23011, 23219 | Working build? |
