[mythtv-users] Re: FreeBSD Port...anybody?
Joseph A. Caputo
jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Tue Jul 15 10:53:17 EDT 2003
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net]On Behalf Of mark at zzo.com
> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 2:32 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Re: FreeBSD Port...anybody?
>
>
> I made a frontend-only port for FreeBSD a while back & it was
> pretty simple - pretty much just comment out all the Nupple* stuff
> & use FreeBSD sound stuff & it worked.
> I no longer have a FreeBSD system at home but if you search the
> mailing list I think I gave a more exact description of what was
> necessary a couple months ago...
> M
>
Seems like what needs to be done is some kind of coordinated effort/roadmap
to actually come up with something that can be committed to CVS. For
instance:
(1) Configure source for frontend-only build on current (Linux/x86) platform
(i.e., #ifdef out stuff that the frontend doesn't need, like V4L calls,
based off of a variable in settings.pro, maybe)
(2) Test #1 & commit. Now we have a working frontend-only build for
Linux/x86.
(3) Port frontend-only build to *BSD/x86.
(4) Test #3 and commit. Now we have a working frontend-only build for
*BSD/x86.
(5) Port #1 & #3 to LinuxPPC & *BSD/ppc (Darwin?) respectively (mostly
endianness issues?)
(6) Test #5 & commit. Voila, working frontend-only builds for Linux & *BSD
on PPC.
After that, a really adventurous soul could attempt a native Cocoa MacOSX
port using Qt/Free Mac and native OSX audio & video output APIs.
So, any volunteers? :-)
-JAC
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