Building a stand alone Mplayer for OSX

I needed a recent mplayer for OS X; the current homebrew version has a memory leak when playing MPEG2 TS SD channels. This is how I compiled the svn HEAD trunk of mplayer for OSX 10.7 and the steps needed to get an app that you can deploy on other macs. I used a virgin OSX with only xCode installed running in VMWare Fusion to eliminate all sort of problems that could arise with already installed libs.

#Override default tools with Cellar ones if available
#This makes sure homebrew stuff is used
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
#Enable extra room in my own libs
export LDFLAGS="-headerpad_max_install_names"

I cheated a little bit and didn’t install all deps by hand. So I installed homebrew and installed the SVN version of mplayer with:

$ brew install --HEAD mplayer

Maybe I had some luck; but this worked beautifully and left me with the latest mplayer (1 March 2012). It also builded all the necessary deps. From here on there are 2 options; use the compiled homebrew version or build your own version with a fresh mplayer checkout. I like to have some control about the build proces so I downloaded the mplayer from SVN. With the previous steps it’s now very straight forward to get a working mplayer;

$ svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer
$ cd mplayer
$ ./configure --disable-x11 --disable-gl --disable-mencoder --enable-macosx-bundle --enable-macosx-finder --target=x86_64-Darwin [--disable-fontconfig]
$ make

Then I used the instructions and scripts provided by Hermi from http://tracker.mplayerosx.ch/boards/1/topics/1444
to change the dylibs to work from inside the mplayer lib/
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mkdir mplayer_dist
cp mplayer mplayer_dist/
cd mplayer_dist
mkdir lib
cp /usr/local/lib/libfribidi.0.dylib lib/
cp /usr/local/lib/libass.4.dylib lib/
cp /usr/local/lib/libtheora.0.dylib lib/
cp /usr/local/lib/libogg.0.dylib lib/
cp /usr/local/lib/libbs2b.0.0.0.dylib lib/
cp /usr/local/lib/libSDL-1.2.0.dylib lib/
cp /usr/local/lib/libfaac.0.0.0.dylib lib/
cp /usr/local/lib/libmp3lame.0.0.0.dylib lib/

install_name_tool -change /usr/local/lib/libfribidi.0.dylib @executable_path/lib/libfribidi.0.dylib mplayer
install_name_tool -change /usr/local/lib/libass.4.dylib @executable_path/lib/libass.4.dylib mplayer
install_name_tool -change /usr/local/lib/libtheora.0.dylib @executable_path/lib/libtheora.0.dylib mplayer
install_name_tool -change /usr/local/lib/libogg.0.dylib @executable_path/lib/libogg.0.dylib mplayer
install_name_tool -change /usr/local/lib/libbs2b.0.0.0.dylib @executable_path/lib/libbs2b.0.0.0.dylib mplayer
install_name_tool -change /usr/local/lib/libSDL-1.2.0.dylib @executable_path/lib/libSDL-1.2.0.dylib mplayer
install_name_tool -change /usr/local/lib/libfaac.0.0.0.dylib @executable_path/lib/libfaac.0.0.0.dylib mplayer

#LIBS
sudo install_name_tool -change /usr/local/lib/libfribidi.0.dylib @executable_path/lib/libfribidi.0.dylib libass.4.dylib
sudo install_name_tool -change /usr/local/lib/libogg.0.dylib @executable_path/lib/libogg.0.dylib libtheora.0.dylib