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Compiling audacious

As a long time linux user now working under OS X I find it hard tobelieve there is iTunes only for mp3 playback. Don't take me wrong - iTunes is not bad, but this whole song library database with all it's huge GUI is far too bloated for me compared to the old winamp or x11amp, xmms & audacious.

Luckily there is hope: As OSX easily (more or less) allows the usage of X11 based applications I went into compiling audacious on OSX. As I couldn't find any information about this on the net and it wan't an easy way I am contributing my experiences for everyone else looking fora good mp3 player on OSX.

Step#1: Download and install fink.

Fink is an easy to use linux ports project for compiling and running linux packets under OSX. Simply browse to www.finkproject.org , download and install fink.

Step#2: Open a terminal and install the prerequisites within fink

We need the glib2 and gtk+2 sources in order to compile audacious:

fink install glib2
fink install glib2-dev
fink install gtk+2-dev

Also we need a nice web downloader, e.g. wget:

fink install wget

Step#3: Retrieve and compile the prerequisite libraries libmowgli and libmcs

Within the terminal create a src-subfolder for all our sources:

mkdir src
cd src

Then grab the libraries

wget http://distfiles.atheme.org/libmowgli-0.7.0.tgz
wget http://distfiles.atheme.org/libmcs-0.7.1.tgz

and extract them

tar xzf libmowgli-0.7.0.tgz
tar xzf libmcs-0.7.1.tgz

Step#3.1: Compile libmowgli

cd libmowgli-0.7.0
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig"
./configure CC=gcc-4.0 # or use a different gcc-version, if you want to
make
make install
cd ..

Step#3.2: Compile libmcs

cd libmcs-0.7.1
./configure CC=gcc-4.0 # or use a different gcc-version, if you want to
make
sudo make install
cd ..

Step#4: Retrieve and compile audacious

Unfortunately I was not able to get the latest audacious2 to run, so I tried version 1.5.1 - and this one works without flaws. As a result, I will stick to the 1.5 version within this tutorial. Eager readers can try out to get v2 to run and tell us how they did it ;)

wget http://distfiles.atheme.org/audacious-1.5.1.tbz2
tar xjf audacious-1.5.1.tbz2
cd audacious-1.5.1
./configure CC=gcc-4.0 LDFLAGS=-L/sw/lib CFLAGS=-I/sw/include #or use a different gcc-version
make
sudo make install
cd ..

Step#5: Retrieve and compile audacious plugins

First, use fink to install all necessary libraries for mp3, vogorbis and flac playback:

fink install libmad
fink install libvorbis
fink install libvorbis0
fink install libflac8-dev

Then download the audacious plugins

wget http://distfiles.atheme.org/audacious-plugins-1.5.1.tbz2
tar xjf audacious-plugins-1.5.1
cd audacious-plugins-1.5.1

and start the configuring process with a disabled dbus and a disabled gnomesshortcuts (obviously this is not available under OSX):

./configure --disable-dbus --disable-gnomeshortcuts CC=gcc-4.0 #again use whatever gcc version you prefer

after that compile and install

make
sudo make install

Step#6: Enjoy yourself

Finally, you can start audacious by running "audacious" from the terminal window. Alternatively, you can configure your X11 and add it to the predefined commands, so you can audacious with a left click from the X11 dock icon.

Posted by Rainer Sinsch