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[osx] - adapt readme - we are supporting osx 10.88
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Memphiz committed Sep 3, 2012
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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.
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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 '$' character are
commands that need to be typed into a Terminal window. Note that the '$'
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$ ./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:

$ ./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).

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,
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