[vlc-devel] build on Leopard

[Pierre d'Herbemont]

On Mar 31, 2008, at 8:07 PM, Georg Seifert wrote:
> hello
>
> I’m new to developing vlc. I tried to build vlc on my Powerbook.
>
> I have xCode 3 and 2.5 installed and the latest Leopard.
>
> I get errors in make src:
> ...
> ppc/dsputil_altivec.c:1474: warning: left-hand operand of comma
> expression has no effect
> ppc/dsputil_altivec.c:1474: warning: left-hand operand of comma
> expression has no effect
> ppc/dsputil_altivec.c:1474: warning: left-hand operand of comma
> expression has no effect
> ppc/dsputil_altivec.c:1474: warning: left-hand operand of comma
> expression has no effect
> ppc/dsputil_altivec.c:1474: error: can't convert between vector values
> of different size
> ppc/dsputil_altivec.c:1474: error: incompatible types in assignment
> make[3]: *** [ppc/dsputil_altivec.o] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [lib] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [.ffmpeg] Error 2
> make: *** [src] Error 2
>
>
> Is this something I can solve or is it temporarily not possible to
> build on ppc?

You can try to fix ffmpeg, or bypass its use using touch extras/ 
contrib/src/.ffmpeg... In the meantime you could report to the ffmpeg- 
devel that they've broken ffmpeg on ppc.

Hope this helps,

Pierre.