[MEncoder-users] Building MPlayer-MEncoder on Mac OS X since gcc 4.2 no longer works

[Reimar Döffinger]

On 28 Oct 2011, at 07:09, "L. Lee" <llee040 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> On 10/26/11 1:33 PM, "Reimar Döffinger" <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:31:30AM -0500, L. Lee wrote:
>>> I tried to compile latest SVN MPlayer/MEncoder in Lion for the first time in
>>> about a month, and the built-in Mac developer tools don't seem to handle it
>>> anymore. The error is "Your binutils version is too old and not supported".
>> 
>> That only happens when compiling a 64 bit version.
>> You can always compile a 32 bit one (which might be the reason why it
>> works for some, probably they are on older hardware where Lion runs in
>> 32 bit mode).
> 
> That's a little hard to accept because I'm sure I was building the 64-bit
> version the last time I successfully built it, also using Lion and the
> latest Xcode.

Well, you could always look in config.log why the check fails, but MPlayer does need support for that syntax to compile properly (with caveats like that the affected code is actually in FFmpeg and that it will of course compile without assembler optimisations etc.)