mythtv on FreeBSD: Setting Up Ports

Posted by Benjamin Close on April 1, 2009 under Mythtv | Be the First to Comment

Step one of getting Mythtv working under FreeBSD involves setting up the required ports.

In my toils of setting up Mythtv I’ve decided to use the development version of MythTV as at the time of writing it hasa lot more features and whilst there is a port of Mythtv 0.18 available, it lacks a lot of the things that will be needed to get MythTV running nicely on FreeBSD.

The first stage in trying to get things running is to install the required ports needed to build the svn version (as of 20090401). I found the following ports were required:

Mythtv has a lot of required dependancies:

  • devel/qt4-corelib  (builds most of qt)
  • x11-servers/xorg-server (build xorg and all required client libs)
  • x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard
  • x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse
  • devel/subversion
  • print/freetype2
  • audio/lame
  • databases/qt4-mysql
  • comms/lirc
  • x11/libXvMC
  • graphics/libGL
  • graphics/libGLU
  • x11/qt4-opengl
  • devel/qt4-qt3support
  • x11-fonts/xorg-fonts-75dpi
  • x11-font/font-misc-misc
  • x11-font/font-alias

With the ports installed, we can now try and get Mythtv building.

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