MythTV PVR/BuildFromSource

Build MythTV addon on OSX

• Install Xcode for your Mac. Go to http://connect.apple.com/

Snow leopard: Xcode 3.2.6

Lion: Xcode 4.3

Mountain Lion: Xcode 4.4

• Install macports. Go to http://http://www.macports.org/install.php

Prefer Mac OS X Package (.pkg) installer specific for your Mac (Mountain Lion, Lion, Snow Leopard)

• Configure macports using Terminal console

sudo port selfupdate

Here sudo need your favorite password.

• Install required tools to build addons using macports.

sudo port install pkgconfig

• Install boost headers.

sudo port install boost
sudo ln -s /opt/local/include/boost /usr/local/include/boost

• Install mysql-connector-c

cd ; mkdir src ; cd src

curl -L http://mirror.cogentco.com/pub/mysql/Connector-C/mysql-connector-c-6.0.2-osx10.5-x86-64bit.tar.gz \
  -o mysql-connector-c-6.0.2-osx10.5-x86-64bit.tar.gz

tar xvfz mysql-connector-c-6.0.2-osx10.5-x86-64bit.tar.gz

cd mysql-connector-c-6.0.2-osx10.5-x86-64bit

sudo cp bin/* /usr/local/bin/
sudo cp lib/* /usr/local/lib/
sudo mkdir /usr/local/include/mysql
sudo cp -R include/ /usr/local/include/mysql/

cd

• Download xbmc-pvr-addons source from git repository (fetzerch)

cd src
git clone git://github.com/fetzerch/xbmc-pvr-addons.git

• Build it

cd xbmc-pvr-addons
./bootstrap
./configure
make zip

• Install addon pvr.mythtv.cmyth with XBMC frodo (nightly build)

Get it from src/xbmc-pvr-addons/addons/pvr.mythtv.cmyth-darwin-unknown.zip and upload it with XBMC as zip file.