1. Introduction
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-This is a platform port of XBMC for the Apple OSX operating system. Both 10.6
-and 10.7 Intel development platforms are supported. Xcode 3.2.6 and 4.3 and newer
+This is a platform port of XBMC for the Apple OSX operating system. 10.6, 10.7
+and 10.8 Intel development platforms are supported. Xcode 3.2.6 and 4.3 and newer
are the recommended versions.
There are 3 ways to build XBMC for Mac, from command-line with make, from command-line
using xcodebuild or from Xcode.
On Snow Leopard (OSX 10.6.x) we recommend using Xcode 3.2.6.
On Lion (OSX 10.7.x) we recommend using Xcode 4.3.x.
+On Mountain Lion (OSX 10.8.1) we recommend using Xcode 4.4.
NOTE TO NEW OS X USERS: All lines that are prefixed with the '$' character are
commands that need to be typed into a Terminal window. Note that the '$'
$ ./configure --with-darwin=osx --with-arch=x86_64
$ make
-IMPORTANT!! for Mountain Lion users. In Xcode 4.4 there is only SDK 10.7 and 10.8
-available. The XBMC buildsystem defaults to 10.6. So for compiling with ML
-you have to specify the 10.7 SDK explicitly on configure:
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- $ ./configure --with-darwin=osx --with-sdk=10.7
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4. How to compile
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architecture as selected in step 3.1 (either i386 for 32Bit or x86_64 for 64Bit),
then build.
-Mountain Lion users have to ensure to build against 10.7 SDK not 10.8 (which is
-selected in Xcode 4.4 by default).
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The build process will take a long time when building the first time.
You can see the progress in "Build Results". There are a large number of static
and dynamic libaries that will need to be built. Once these are built,