[mythtv-users] 0.24 Mac OS X Build

[Craig Treleaven]

At 3:55 PM -0800 1/17/11, scram69 wrote:
>First time trying to navigate the git site, without much success.  Can
>you post a link/path to your recommended version of osx-packager.pl?
>Also, on a clean install of 10.6.5, are there any libraries that need
>to be installed/upgraded first?

Hi Steve:

Nigel Pearson reworked osx-packger.pl to work with Git:

https://github.com/MythTV/packaging/blob/OSX-fixes/OSX/build/osx-packager.pl

Click 'Raw' and then copy/paste into the text editor of your choice.

You don't need to install anything else IF you aren't going to use any plugins.  MythWeather requires the Perl bindings.  The first time you try to build, it will list the missing stuff (Date::Manip, etc).  These are easy enough to install with Cpan (eg 'sudo /usr/bin/cpan -i Date::Manip Image::Size DateTime::Format::ISO8601 SOAP::Lite').  You'll be asked repeatedly about installing missing dependencies.  If you just keep hitting return, eventually it ought to install everything. 

MythNetVision requires the Python bindings.  Apparently this hasn't really be tested on Mac OS and isn't supported (yet?).

BTW, built a new copy of .24-fixes today and played around for a few minutes.  I experienced what seems to be the same problems as others:

http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/9223

IOW, it is pretty broken at the moment.

Craig