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RetroCode works on Mac OS X

Good news everyone - the CVS-version of RetroCode works on Mac OSX.
However there are limitations:
- retroMpeg codec has not yet successfully been compiled as we encountered some issues with compiling the libraries it depends on - but that shouldn't take long to solve
- retroQualcomm will most likely never be working on that OS as the library (qscl = Qualcomm's QCELP codec) is not available on that platform

We are currently in the process of "autotoolizing" the RetroCode package, until that is finalized you will have to compile it manually. To compile the OSX version, simply overwrite "Makefile" with "Makefile.darwin" as found within the CVS tree.

For the OSX enthusiasts among you, I can only confirm that this OS really rocks. To port RetroCode towards OSX, all that was actually needed was one single platform specific code change (caused by that silly idea from Apple to rename shared objects from ".so" to ".dylib"). The rest was changes in the make-process caused by the platform specific linker on OSX.

Posted by Till Toenshoff 2007-12-02

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