[vlc-devel] Re: FLV and UB for OSX

[Le Stang Jean-Baptiste]

	I gave a try at creating a UB from the Intel and PPC (v0.8.5)  
version and I wrote the following shell script.

#!/bin/bash

INTELROOT=/Volumes/vlc-0.8.5/VLC.app
PPCROOT=/Users/jeanbaptiste/Desktop/VLC.app
UBROOT=/Users/jeanbaptiste/Desktop/VLC-ub.app

for i in `ls $INTELROOT/Contents/MacOS/lib/`
do
         echo $i
         lipo $INTELROOT/Contents/MacOS/lib/$i $PPCROOT/Contents/ 
MacOS/lib/$i -create -output $UBROOT/Contents/MacOS/lib/$i
done
for i in `ls $INTELROOT/Contents/MacOS/modules/`
do
         echo $i
         lipo $INTELROOT/Contents/MacOS/modules/$i $PPCROOT/Contents/ 
MacOS/modules/$i -create -output $UBROOT/Contents/MacOS/modules/$i
done
lipo $INTELROOT/Contents/MacOS/VLC $PPCROOT/Contents/MacOS/VLC - 
create -output $UBROOT/Contents/MacOS/VLC

	To create a UB from two (or more) object files, you have to use  
'lipo' (very funny name when you know that a UB is also called a FAT  
binary :p). I really think that creating the UB can be done after  
making the PPC and Intel version and then creating the final assembly  
(but I'm not 100% sure about this)

	As expected the binary is then kind of enormous , here I have a 62  
Mb file. I've uploaded a UB version of VLC onto my web server but I'm  
not able to try the Intel version, but on PPC, the UB is working so  
far fine. Can anyone give it a try with a MacTel?

<http://lestang.org/VLC-ub.zip>

--
Jean-Baptiste LE STANG


On Sep 20, 2006, at 10:16 AM, Jérôme Decoodt wrote:

> Hello,
>
>> current Mac version of VLC (0.8.5): FLV support is really shaky and
>> the application is not a universal binary yet.
>
> AFAIK, we are not going to publish Universal Binaries. This is due  
> to to
> size which would be to big for us. Btw, we already have Intel an PPC
> support, so I guess it would not be too hard to add a flavour UB in  
> our
> Makefile... If you know how to do it, feel free to send us a patch!
>
> Thanks in your interest in VLC media player.
>
> Regards,
> -- 
> Jérôme Decoodt
>
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