[vlc-devel] Compiling VLC in MacOS under Lion 10.7.2

[Rafaël Carré]

Le Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:10:13 +0700,
Derek Scott <cyzicusmedia at gmail.com> a écrit :

> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I've been trying to compile VLC from the git repository using the 
> instructions at http://wiki.videolan.org/OSXCompile.
> 
> 1.  I successfully get the development tools by bootstrapping in 
> vlc/extras/tools.
> 
> 2.  I select 10.6 SDK by $ export OSX_VERSION=10.6.

IIUC there is no 10.7 SDK, that's it?

> 3.  Prepare 3rd Party Libraries.  After creating the osx directory in 
> contrib, I do
> 
>   $ ../bootstrap --host=x86_64-apple-darwin11 --build=x86_64-apple-darwin11
> 
> Since I'm running in 64-bit in OS 10.7.2, I thought my host should be 
> "--host=x86_64-apple-darwin11" and my build should be 
> "--build=x86_64-apple-darwin11."

Run gcc -dumpmachine to see what it is

> 4.  Prebuilt libraries.
> 
> I try make prebuilt, but
> 
> ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/contrib/x86_64-apple-darwin11/vlc-contrib-x86_64-apple-darwin11-latest.tar.bz2"
> 
> fails because there's no file there.
> 
> 5.  Build your own libraries.
> 
> I try
> 
> make -j4 .gettext
> 
> This errors out with the following:
> 
> In file included from ./bindtextdom.c:24:
> /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk/usr/include/stddef.h:74: error: two or 


I'd start by looking what's at line 24 of bindtextdom.c and line 74 of stddef.h


> more data types in declaration specifiers
> In file included from ./gettextP.h:23,
>                   from ./dgettext.c:23:
> /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk/usr/include/stddef.h:74: error: two or 
> more data types in declaration specifiers
> In file included from ./gettextP.h:23,
>                   from ./dcgettext.c:23:
> /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk/usr/include/stddef.h:74: error: two or 
> more data types in declaration specifiers
> In file included from ./gettextP.h:23,
>                   from ./gettext.c:30:
> /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk/usr/include/stddef.h:74: error: two or 
> more data types in declaration specifiers
> make[4]: *** [dgettext.lo] Error 1
> make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make[4]: *** [gettext.lo] Error 1
> make[4]: *** [dcgettext.lo] Error 1
> make[4]: *** [bindtextdom.lo] Error 1
> make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make: *** [.gettext] Error 2
> 
> --I'd appreciate your suggestions.

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Rafaël Carré