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Ability to build binaries on (not for) macOS (2nd attempt) #335

Closed ffxsam closed 4 months ago

ffxsam commented 8 months ago

Taking a different approach this time. The updated shebang (to #!/usr/bin/env bash) will ensure better portability, to start. There will also be some conditionals to use different commands/options, where necessary.

BtbN commented 4 months ago

I'll close this now, since I don't think it's a good idea to add or worth the effort. For one, it has already confused people a couple times. And the total lack of support for building for OSX also makes it kinda pointless.

thewh1teagle commented 3 months ago

I'm really looking for macOS support as well. I can help by testing it on my Mac. Would you consider adding it?

BtbN commented 3 months ago

I think you are again misunderstanding. This PR is/was NOT about building for MacOS, but only on it, still for Windows and Linux. Apple does not support and actively prevents you from cross-compiling for its platform, so supporting it is impossible with the system the builds use. I also have no MacOS capable PC, and no interest in getting one, so I couldn't test anything.

ffxsam commented 3 months ago

To be fair, macOS is technically *nix, and I was able to get this set of scripts to build ffmpeg on macOS. It just wasn't easy, and required a lot of conditionals. I think it would wind up being a maintenance headache. In the end, I just went with John van Sickle's static builds.