[FFmpeg-devel] Builds for MAC

Timo Rothenpieler timo at rothenpieler.org
Sun May 16 22:43:31 EEST 2021


On 16.05.2021 21:26, Jan Ekström wrote:
> On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 10:02 PM Timo Rothenpieler
> <timo at rothenpieler.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 16.05.2021 19:46, Jan Ekström wrote:
>>> If you have interest in figuring out building binaries for
>>> distribution, I would recommend contributing to one of the public and
>>> automated build systems such as https://github.com/BtbN/FFmpeg-Builds
>>> .
>>>
>>> Currently it has Windows and 64bit Linux in there, and the person
>>> poking at it seems open to contributions to add more systems.
>>
>> Unfortunately those builds are hard-wired to only support what can be
>> cross-compiled to from Linux.
>> And as far as I'm aware, that's still impossible to do for OSX.
> 
> Yes, it would have to utilize a native macOS 10.15 / 11.x worker.
> Thankfully this is available (looking at
> https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-github-hosted-runners/about-github-hosted-runners
> ), although means that various things would have to be adjusted in the
> scripts of course.

Yeah, it has to be able to run in Docker, otherwise it's a rewrite from 
scratch.
With all the other craziness and user-annoyance Apple is doing, my 
Interest in working on something I can't even use or test is very low.

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