[MPlayer-dev-eng] [Q] How to build a universal binary for the Mac OS X?

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 12:40:49PM +0200, Chris Roccati wrote:
> 
> On 26 Sep 2006, at 11:43 , Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> 
> >furthermore i dont remember a single bugreport from a osx user who  
> >tried
> >running the wrong binary, it rather looks like a bunch or apple  
> >lemmings
> >on a crussade
> 
> There are no reports because the binary provided on the official  
> mplayer site *IS* an universal binary.
> 
> >AFAIK universal-binary is supported by building twice and using an  
> >external
> >tool so what do you guys want?
> 
> It's not actually that easy.
> You have to build twice on two different machines:
> you can neither build a PPC mplayer on a i686 nor a i686 mplayer on a  
> PPC machine.

well, if crosscompilation doesnt work then that should be fixed ...

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