Clues for the Clueless?

Jeremy Lavergne jeremy at lavergne.gotdns.org
Sat Oct 17 11:04:14 PDT 2009


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On Oct 17, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Michael Crawford wrote:

> I'd like to take a stab at building Ogg Frog as a MacPort.  But I
> don't have the first clue as to how to create a port file from
> scratch.  Is there a "Getting Started" tutorial somewhere?
>
> There are several dependencies, some of which might already be in
> MacPorts - the various audio codecs, libz, and image format libraries.
> I will need to make a new portfile for ZooLib, and then one for Ogg
> Frog itself that pulls all these pieces together.
>
> Given all those dependencies, my final port file may need to be rather
> advanced.  I would also like to support it being built as both a Mac
> OS X Carbon application as well as an X11 application.  ZooLib can be
> built both ways on the Mac, so I'm sure I could do so with Ogg Frog.
>
> (ZooLib is a C++ cross-platform application framework:
> http://www.zoolib.org/  It has the MIT License.)
>
> Ogg Frog is not yet released publicly, but when it is it will start
> out as an audio player, with new features added with each release
> until it could (hopefully) compete with iTunes, WinAmp and Windows
> Media Player.  It will be licensed under the GPL.
>
> http://www.oggfrog.com/free-music-software/
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mike
> -- 
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