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

[Mohammad A. Haque]

On Sep 26, 2006, at 6:47 AM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:

> 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 ...

Crosscompilation does work. I've been doing my unofficial binaries on  
my MBP and they run fine on PPC machines.

Unless I'm really high and imagining things.
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