11.5. Mac OS
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## 11.5. Mac OS

MPlayer does not work on Mac OS versions before 10, but should compile out-of-the-box on Mac OS X 10.2 and up. The preferred compiler is the Apple version of GCC 3.x or later. If you have Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later and QuickTime 7 you can use the macosx video output driver.

### 11.5.1. MPlayer OS X GUI

You can get a native GUI for MPlayer together with precompiled MPlayer binaries for Mac OS X from the MPlayerOSX project, but be warned: that project is not active anymore.

Fortunately, MPlayerOSX has been taken over by a member of the MPlayer team. Preview releases are available from our download page and an official release should arrive soon.

In order to build MPlayerOSX from source yourself, you need the `mplayerosx`, the `main` and a copy of the `main` CVS module named `main_noaltivec`. `mplayerosx` is the GUI frontend, `main` is MPlayer and `main_noaltivec` is MPlayer built without AltiVec support.

To check out CVS modules use:

    cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@mplayerhq.hu:/cvsroot/mplayer login
    cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@mplayerhq.hu:/cvsroot/mplayer co -P mplayerosx
    cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@mplayerhq.hu:/cvsroot/mplayer co -P main

In order to build MPlayerOSX you will need to set up something like this:

    MPlayer_source_directory
       |
       |--->main           (MPlayer CVS source)
       |
       |--->main_noaltivec (MPlayer CVS source configured with --disable-altivec)
       |
       |--->mplayerosx     (MPlayer OS X CVS source)

You first need to build main and main_noaltivec.

Next, set a global variable:

    export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3

Then, configure:

If you configure for a G4 or later CPU with AltiVec support, do as follows:

    ./configure --with-termcaplib=ncurses.5 --disable-gl --disable-x11

If you configure for a G3-powered machine without AltiVec, use:

    ./configure --with-termcaplib=ncurses.5 --disable-gl --disable-x11
    --disable-altivec

You may need to edit `config.mak` and change `-mcpu` and `-mtune` from `74XX` to `G3`.

Continue with

    make

then go to the mplayerosx directory and type

    make dist

This will create a compressed `.dmg` archive with the ready to use binary.

You can also use the Xcode 2.1 project; the old project for Xcode 1.x does not work anymore.

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