[MPlayer-DOCS] r18842 - trunk/DOCS/xml/en/ports.xml

[gpoirier]

Author: gpoirier
Date: Wed Jun 28 01:01:40 2006
New Revision: 18842

Modified:
   trunk/DOCS/xml/en/ports.xml

Log:
More information on how to compile MPlayer on OSX with extra features


Modified: trunk/DOCS/xml/en/ports.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/DOCS/xml/en/ports.xml	(original)
+++ trunk/DOCS/xml/en/ports.xml	Wed Jun 28 01:01:40 2006
@@ -689,9 +689,50 @@
 <application>MPlayer</application> does not work on Mac OS versions before
 10, but should compile out-of-the-box on Mac OS X 10.2 and up.
 The preferred compiler is the Apple version of
-GCC 3.x or later. If you have Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later and QuickTime 7
+GCC 3.x or later.
+You can get the basic compilation environement by installing Apple's
+<ulink url="http://developer.apple.com/tools/download/">Xcode</ulink>.
+If you have Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later and QuickTime 7
 you can use the macosx video output driver.
 </para>
+<para>
+Unfortunately, this basic environment won't allow you to take advantage
+of all the nice features of <application>MPlayer</application>.
+For instance, in order to have OSD support compiled in, you will need
+to have fontconfig and freetype libraries installed in your machine.
+Contrary to other Unixes such as most Linux and BSDs, OSX doesn't have just
+one packaging system that comes with the system.
+</para>
+<para>
+There's at least two to choose from:
+<ulink url="http://fink.sourceforge.net/">Fink</ulink> and
+<ulink url="http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/">DarwinPorts</ulink>.
+Both of them provide about the same service (i.e. a lot of packages to
+choose from, dependencies resolution, the ability to simply add/update/remove
+packages, etc...).
+Fink offers both precompiled binary packages or to build everything from
+source, whereas DarwinPorts only offers to build them from source.
+The author of this guide chose DarwinPorts for the simple fact that its basic
+setup was more lightweight.
+Later examples will be based on DarwinPorts.
+</para>
+<para>
+For instance, to compile <application>MPlayer</application> with OSD support:
+<screen>sudo port install pkgconfig</screen>
+This will install <application>pkg-config</application>, which is a system for
+managing library compile/link flags.
+<application>MPlayer</application>'s <systemitem>configure</systemitem> script
+uses it to properly detect libraries.
+Then you can install <application>fontconfig</application> in a
+similar way:
+<screen>sudo port install fontconfig</screen>
+Then you can proceed with launching <application>MPlayer</application>'s
+<systemitem>configure</systemitem> script (note the
+<systemitem>PKG_CONFIG_PATH</systemitem> and <systemitem>PATH</systemitem>
+environment variables so that <systemitem>configure</systemitem> find the
+libraries installed with DarwinPorts):
+<screen>PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/local/lib/pkgconfig/ PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin/ ./configure</screen>
+</para>
 
 <sect2 id="osx_gui">
 <title>MPlayer OS X GUI</title>