[MPlayer-DOCS] [PATCH] How to build MPlayerOSX

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 8/25/05, The Wanderer <inverseparadox at comcast.net> wrote:
> Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> 
> > Hi there,
> > Here's a patch that explains how to build MPlayer OSX, based on
> > Nicolas Plourde explanations.
> > I'm sure that patch needs a bit of polish, and probably would need
> > someone with such a machine to try the directions of the build
> > process to see if it does work, or if smth is missing.
> 
> I'm not in a position to comment on the technical aspects (seeing as how
> I'd have to bug a few other people in order to even get access to a
> system running OSX), but on the more superficial level:
> 
> > +You can get the latest source from cvs:
> 
> I'm not certain that "CVS" shouldn't be capitalized here, since AFAICT
> it refers not to the command name but to the CVS repository (i.e., it's
> an abbreviation for the noun phrase "the CVS repository"). I wouldn't
> kick up too much of a fuss if it were left as is, though.

Yep. "CVS" is the way it should be.


> > +In order to build <application>MPlayerOSX</application> you will need to
> > +setup something like this:
> 
> "set up"
> 
> > +Run <systemitem>./configure</systemitem> and build mplayer in
> > +<systemitem>main</systemitem> and <systemitem>main_noaltivec</systemitem>
> > +go to the <systemitem>mplayerosx</systemitem> dir and do
> > +<systemitem>make</systemitem> or <systemitem>make dist</systemitem> to
> > +create a .dmg of <application>MPlayerOSX</application>.
> 
> I don't see a sentence break (or a new bullet point, or anything
> similar) between "main_noaltivec" and "go to the" et cetera. I'd
> probably break with a period and use "Then go to the".

I agree.



> > +You can also use the xcode 2.1 project: the old one is not working.
> 
> If I'm understanding this correctly ("versions of xcode older than 2.1
> do not work for this purpose"), then I would say "older versions" or
> "the older version" - or even "the old version" or "the previous
> version" if there was only one - rather than "the old one".

I must say I don't know how that sentence is supposed to be
understood. The page http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/xcode/
doesn't state that xcode reached a 2.1 version number. Nicolas will
have to clarify this. :-)

Guillaume

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