Howto build Avidemux on OSX 10.6, 10.7, or 10.8 using Homebrew

[nibbles]

Avidemux-2.5.6 or 2.5svn builds from source on all flavors of OSX using Homebrew.
Avidemux-2.6.0 or 2.6svn builds on all flavors of OSX too, using an unofficial Homebrew formula whose link is below.

This first post explains how to build the 2.5 versions.
To build Avidemux-2.6, look a few posts down the page at those directions.

To build Avidemux-2.5
Summary:
Install Homebrew, update it, then
  brew install pkg-config cmake qt
  brew install --HEAD avidemux

Details:
First get Homebrew installed into /usr/local.  A user sent me a link that
gives you detailed instructions Howto Install Homebrew.  It's very good.
Then prepend /usr/local/bin to your PATH and open a new terminal window.
Homebrew works correctly only in the absence of Macports and Fink.
(Those other packaging helpers will confuse things with dupes)

The next steps will get Homebrew updated and prove to you that
Homebrew is happy.  The output of brew doctor is important.
Fix anything it complains about.

Code: [Select]

brew update
brew doctor
brew install pkg-config cmake aften qt
Qt4 installs rapidly like that using what Homebrew calls a bottle.
It will build painfully slowly from source if you throw any command line options,
like brew install --developer qt.  Save yourself an hour and don't use flags for Qt4.

Code: [Select]

brew install --HEAD avidemux
brew linkapps
That's how you build the latest 2.5svn which has numerous fixes for OSX
by the developer here, and is better than 2.5.6.


Known Problems: 
2.5 has problems building with clang (which conforms strictly to coding standards called C99).
The formula will automatically use a different compiler unless you build it --with-debug.
So most users will not have this problem.

Troubleshooting:  If Avidemux doesn't build for some reason, link a gist of the exact error
here so I can help.  The following brew method makes it build slowly and verbosely, designed to be used for debugging:

Code: [Select]

brew rm -f avidemux
brew install -vd --use-llvm --with-debug --HEAD avidemux


To rebuild or reinstall in verbose mode:

Code: [Select]

brew rm -f avidemux
brew install -v --HEAD avidemux

EDIT: r7666 - Patches now inline.
EDIT: r7680 - Patches now upstream.
EDIT: r7694 - Tested again, builds ok, no changes to the formula.  Added info about Macports and Fink and brew linkapps.
EDIT: r7702 - Tested against Qt-4.8 builds ok, works better, now seeing x264 configure dialog in Qt gui. No changes to formula.
EDIT: r7724 - Tested again, compiles and runs on Lion.  No changes to formula.  Added info on removing, reinstalling, or upgrading.
EDIT: r7724 - Cleaned up the directions some more, specified --use-llvm because Clang has problems, suggested gawk.
EDIT: r7724 - Tested that both 2.5 and 2.6 compile on Snow Leopard & Lion.
EDIT: 2.5.6  - Changed formula url to point to 2.5.6 stable.  Added 'head' to formula.  Added patch for ffmpeg + 32bit OSX
EDIT: r7724 - Tested again.  Add pkg-config and cmake to the howto, but remove --use-llvm from the qt command so it pours the bottle
EDIT: r7724 - Changes the formula - removes the dep on libvpx which is broken by XCode-4.3 released Feb. 16, 2012.  Get the new raw.
EDIT: r7742 - Teste the new svn patches.  Changed the Howto's PATH prepend info to correct missing /bin as in /usr/local/bin
EDIT: r7742 - Change formula so the revision number can be determined.  Removed --HEAD from aften, as it's not an option.
EDIT: r7742 - Also back in formula is libvpx for decoding webm.  Get the new raw formula and build svn for these changes.
EDIT: r7742 - Change the link to the raw formula to a fixed url that always points to the latest commit.
EDIT: r7742 - Fix the url for HEAD to use http not svn.  Berlios svn is down.  Force fetch a new local repo, then rebrew.
EDIT: r7750 - Change the formula to choose a compiler for you unless you throw --with-debug.  Clean formula ruby syntax.
EDIT: r7750 - Add code to output verbosely if --with-debug.  Use Homebrew buildPath variable.
EDIT: r7903 - Add a link to Moncef's Howto Install Homebrew.  Thanks for that tip!
EDIT: r7907 - Add info on how to update CMake-2.8.8, which Homebrew just patched.
EDIT: r7908 - Homebrew has accepted my formula for avidemux.  rm the one you have in /usr/local and brew update.
EDIT: r7908 - Because there's a Qt4 bottle for Snow Lep now, adjusted the Howto to reflect that.
EDIT: r7908 - Moved the -v flag to after the word install where it belongs these days.
EDIT: r7908 - Now works with Mountain Lion 10.8.
EDIT: r7908 - Simplify the FAQ a bit, remove old notes about CMake, add a link to the post for building 2.6

[nibbles]

bump now builds on Lion.

[Baa]

Do you have such a magic formula for AviDemux 2.6 as well?
I would be highly interested in checking it out, too :-)
Thanks!

[Baa]

Hello...
in the meantime I was able to build 2.5.5 according to your docs.
Unfortunately it didn't work at first, but after I got rid of my MacPorts Installation it was a clean run...
Thanks!

[nibbles]

Info On Building 2.6.0 or 2.6svn Using Homebrew

  Save this link as:  /usr/local/Library/Formula/avidemux3.rb

To brew Avidemux-2.6.0 after you've saved that link:

Code: [Select]

brew rm -f avidemux3
brew install avidemux3


There's also a debug option.  To use it, you would brew like this:

Code: [Select]

brew rm -f avidemux3
brew install -vd --with-debug avidemux3


And finally you can build 2.6svn from the master repo (recommended):

Code: [Select]

brew rm -f avidemux3
brew install --HEAD avidemux3


Note: On 1 JUN 2012 I made two important bug-fixes to the formula.  Be sure to download it again.
Also note that Homebrew has changed a couple of things that cause a lot of harmless warnings at the end of the install.  The formula installer code now recurses through the subdirectories looking to adjust the library rpaths.  The warnings I'm talking about that you can ignore look like this:

Warning: Could not fix install names for /usr/local/Cellar/avidemux3/2.6/lib/ADM_plugins6/audioDecoder/libADM_ad_faad.dylib


EDIT: It compiles on Lion and SL now. removed that stuff.  Added more brew examples.
EDIT: Modified formula to remove Smultron calls, as it compiles cleanly.  Added an important patch so it finds the plugins.
EDIT: Added all the depends_on libraries to the formula so it builds all the plugins.
EDIT: I fixed the formula link to always point to the raw text.  It's a direct link now.
EDIT: Changed formula to include a patch for pluginSettings, to always disable SDL, to fix clang debug cflag
EDIT: Changed formula to use gitorious as the download site.  Fixes berlios offline.
EDIT: Removed the --use-llvm flag because 2.6 builds with clang now too.  Thx!
EDIT: Changed to formula to use a renamed variable std_cmake_args.  Suggest everyone brew update.
EDIT: Added deps on aften and fribidi to support the new plugins recently crafted.
EDIT: Changed the formula to use the standard Homebrew optimization for non-debug builds, -Os.
EDIT: Fix for std_cmake_args not needing .split anymore.  Sorry about that.
EDIT: Fix for ffmpeg-0.11 that needs `make -j1 install`, otherwise there's a race condition.
EDIT: Add new dependency on two-lame due to the internal library's removal.
EDIT: Add code to remove -Werror in one of the CMakeLists that was a blocker.
EDIT: Add a new dep on sqlite, as Avidemux-2.6 requires it now.
EDIT: 12SEP2012 Add 2.6.0 stable, create 2.6svn HEAD, add Qt as a regular dep.
EDIT: 17OCT2012 Adjust the formula for Homebrew's new option syntax, change ARGV too.

[kenshin3it]

hi,
How can i upgrade avidemux?
because homebrew has downloaded qt 4.8 and when i've tried to install or upgrade avidemux i've  got answers like:"already installed" or "already upgraded".

ps i've already copied new formula in folder /usr/local/library/formula.


thank you very much.

[nibbles]

Code: [Select]

brew rm -f avidemux
will do a force remove of all versions of 2.5.5 and is a good command to clean things up.
I use it myself before each build.  It's the same a regular brew rm, except that it removes
all traces of all versions, even if something wasn't fully installed.

[nox534]

Hi nibbles,

thanks for your great Formula. Here is a fix for Snow Leopard with 32-Bit (https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/ffmpeg.rb).

[nibbles]

Thanks for the patch.  I merged it into the formula for 2.5.6, just in time too, because the Homebrew admins
want to pull the avidemux formula into the main trunk, and your work gets it running on 32bits.  Thanks again.

[kenshin3it]

hi,
i've tried to rebuild stable version but when everything is done i can't find mp3(lame) encoder in audio menu.
before building version 2.5.6 ,homebrew alert me that some libraries was from another source(before homebrew i had macports but i've uninstalled and deleted libmp3lame libraries from folder like homebrew said).
How can in fix it?

Thank you.

[nibbles]

After you build 2.5.6, get to a command line and type:

Code: [Select]

avidemux2_cli --help > help.txt 2>&1
open help.txt

Select all the text and paste it into a new gist.  Then reply with the url.  We can see what is loading for that hopefully.  If you feel brave, open Applications/Utilities/Console and click the "sytem.log" in the left column to see what the gui is doing.  Maybe look for it loading plugins.  Paste the whole output into a gist.  Good luck.

[kenshin3it]

thanks for answer,below the gist:


   
https://gist.github.com/ffdc89db022103276603

[nibbles]

Yes you are definitely missing a few of the encoders for one reason or another.  If you are sure that brew doctor is happy, then the solution should be pretty straightforward: rip everything out and try again.

But before you remove avidemux and all its deps, let's list what deps Homebrew thinks it has:

Code: [Select]

brew list --versions `brew deps avidemux`
Then after decide to try to fix it, let's uninstall then reinstall your avidemux and all its deps:

Code: [Select]

brew rm -f `brew deps avidemux`
brew update
brew install gawk gnu-sed cmake pkg-config qt
brew install --use-llvm avidmeux

But you should really brew head which has the latest fixes from Mean for OSX, include a lame encoder patch.
See r7741 on this page: 

Code: [Select]

brew install --HEAD --use-llvm avidemux

[kenshin3it]

So,i 've followed you instructions but lame doesn't appear in avidemux 2.5.6 .
After read message in shell i've seen that when homebrew builds lame giveback an error about linking lame.h(seems something about permissions).
I've change it,get command "brew link lame" and rebuild avidemux.
Now everything is ok.
Thank you.

[Torrent Surfer]

I keep getting the following error message either brewing 2.5.6 or 2.6:

Code: [Select]

Checking out svn://svn.berlios.de/avidemux/branches/avidemux_2.5_branch_gruntster
svn: Can't connect to host 'svn.berlios.de': Connection refused
Any ideas?

Thanks.