[mythtv] Cross-compiling on Mac OS X 10.6 to 10.4 (tiger)

[david.w.smiley at gmail.com]

Nigel, have you made any progress cross-compiling mythtv for 10.4?

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Nigel Pearson <nigel at ind.tansu.com.au>wrote:

>
> Future versions of Qt may be Cocoa only, but for now,
>> osx-packager doesn't ask for it, and the resultant Qt
>> should be Carbon+Cocoa.
>>
>
> What you're saying here seems to only elaborate on what I stated, not
> refute what I said in any way.  Bottom line:  Qt requires Carbon for my
> target environment (10.4).
>
>
> True. What I was trying to say is - letting the script DL+build
> Qt is safe. Possibly safer than downloading a prebuilt one
> (which will probably not have the required MySQL plugins built in).
>
>
> Note that I'm not sure if the Qt libraries are 10.4 safe.
> I do remember seeing -macosx_version_min in some Qt makefiles,
> but can't remember which Qt version or why.
>
>
>
> Running a 10.6.x built app on 10.4 (the AppleTV specifically) will fail --
> I've tried it.
>
>
> As have I, now.
>
> What was interesting was that the error was in one of libmyth*.dylib
> instead of the binary I loaded (mythfrontend) - which told me the
> main() wrapper is compatible, but not the library load table :-(
>
>
> this assumes that one could even build 23.fixes on 10.4 -- an untested
> assumption.
>
>
> I also tested that last night. The FFmpeg Makefiles
> are not currently compatible with the make in 10.4:
>
> ...
> /usr/bin/make -C external/FFmpeg
> common.mak:28: *** unterminated call to function `foreach': missing `)'.
>  Stop.
> make: *** [external/FFmpeg] Error 2
>
>
> which reminds me, time to update the WiKi:
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Myth_on_Mac_-_Build_status
>
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