<div dir="auto">Web browsers are even more complicated but<div dir="auto">you do not need to install xcode to use safari...<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il lun 7 mar 2022, 13:07 Ryan Schmidt <<a href="mailto:ryandesign@macports.org">ryandesign@macports.org</a>> ha scritto:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Mar 7, 2022, at 06:02, Michele Venturi wrote:<br>
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> Sadly xcode is needed even for something as simple as<br>
> a media player, for example mpv, I wonder why actually.<br>
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Media players are probably extremely complicated pieces of software. Hardly what I would call simple.<br>
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In the case of mpv, it requires Xcode, on recent OS versions, because parts of it are built using the Swift language, and this was thought to be the only way to get those parts to build properly. See <a href="https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/commit/8222cfaa4124483d2faad4f35a209885d440dd61" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/commit/8222cfaa4124483d2faad4f35a209885d440dd61</a>.<br>
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mpv is a difficult piece of software to get to build properly. I recently committed numerous changes to hopefully fix many of those problems in the mpv port, but there are probably still other problems remaining.</blockquote></div>