TOC 1. Introduction 2. Getting the source code 3. Installing the required MacPorts packages 4. How to compile 4.1 Using XCode 4.2 Using Eclipse 4.3 Using Command line 5. How to run 6. Tips n' Tricks section 7. Endword ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Introduction ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a very early port of XBMC to OS X. It's target is developers and not end-users. We don't offer end-user support yet, and we're not really interested to hear about bugs unless you can help track it down and possibly help with fixing it. We currently recommend OS X 10.5.1 as a development platform. NOTE TO NEW OS X USERS: All lines that are prefixed with the '$' character are commands that need to be typed into a Terminal window. Note that the '$' character itself should NOT be typed as part of the command. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Getting the source code ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- $ cd $HOME $ svn checkout https://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xbmc/branches/linuxport/XBMC ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Installing the required MacPorts packages ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Install MacPorts (http://www.macports.org/). Then install the following packages from the Terminal window: $ sudo port install glew freetype fribidi libcdio lzo python24 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. How to compile ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- 4.1 Using Xcode ---------------------------------------- Start XCode and load the XBMC project. Click the "Build" button. ---------------------------------------- 4.2 Using Eclipse ---------------------------------------- Make sure you install support for C++ (the CDT plugins). Checkout the linuxport branch into your Eclipse project root. Right click on the project and select Build (note that this call out to the xcodebuild tool). ---------------------------------------- 4.3 Using Terminal ---------------------------------------- Issue the following command from the top-level directory: $ xcodebuild -parallelizeTargets -configuration Debug You can also specify "Release" as a configuration. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. How to run ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Set the XBMC_HOME environment variable to point to a runtime environment (a good one is the directory inside XBMC.app, namely XBMC.app/Content/Resources/XBMC). Then, to run the debug version: $ build/Debug/XBMC And the release version: $ build/Release/XBMC ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. Tips n' Tricks section -----------------------------------------------------------------------------