Can't build x264 anymore? Get yasm.

[jbrjake]

Sorry, everyone.

I freshened up our copy of libx264 earlier today in prep for that long-forthcoming snapshot build.

It seems that x264 no longer builds right with nasm in x86 -- it fails on the CABAC assembly code.

You need to install yasm to build it. Which I think means using fink, darwinports, or compiling it from source: http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/re ... 6.2.tar.gz

Again, sorry. It wasn't an obvious problem. I'm still on PowerPC Macs, where it builds fine, and I didn't realize there would be collateral damage on the Intel side of things.

As eddyg has pointed out, it should probably be made part of the configure check for x86 boxes. Maybe even bundle a Mac binary of it like we do with jam, since the yasm project doesn't even offer an official Mac build

If this is a pain in the ass for another people, I'll just revert the commit and we'll go back to our old out of date x264 with its old out of date VAQ.

[Berylium]

Running a Mac Pro I was having just such a build problem. I downloaded the yasm source you linked and built it successfully. Unsure what to do next I just put the yasm binary in the same folder as the nasm binary (/developer/usr/bin). However, I'm
still failing to build HandBrake. I'm sure there's a step I'm missing (maybe telling the system about yasl or something). Any suggestions?

thank you,

Berylium

[mac_man_ad]

where the yasm instructions say 'make install' (step 4 in the INSTALL file) try 'sudo make install' you will then be prompted for admin password. in mac os x permissions admins dont have write access to the install locations.

the yasm install worked for me (imac c2d 2GHz osx.5.2)

andrew

[Berylium]

Thank you, mac_man_ad, that worked like a charm!

To anyone else who may have difficulty with this on an Intel based Mac let me supplement jbrjake's instructions (some of this may be overkill but it worked for me).

1. download and unzip the source code jbrjake links to
2. open terminal and navigate to the new yasm-0.6.2 folder you just unzipped
3. run "./configure"
4. run "make"
5. run "sudo make install" (you'll obviously need an admin password for this one)
6. navigate to your HandBrake source folder
7. run "./configure"
8. run "./jam"

That should do it for you.

-Berylium

[OwlBoy]

At the time of this post I can't get that link to load (for yasm) I found a mirror here though:

http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/?C=N;O=D

And thanks for the steps Berylium!

-Owl

[saintdev]

Subject: drop support for nasm-0.98
To: x264-devel <at> videolan.org
Date: 2008-04-20 23:21:02 GMT

I plan to drop support for nasm < 2.0 soon, in order to eliminate a bunch
of SSE3 related ifdefs. You all should be using yasm anyway, but if
someone strenuously objects maybe I can come up with a way to isolate the
kludge in one place. Not that I expect it; nasm build seems to have been
broken for a while already, and I haven't heard many complaints.

--Loren Merritt

[saintdev]

Subject: commit: drop support for pre-SSE3 assemblers (Loren Merritt )
To: x264-devel (at) videolan.org
Date: 2008-04-27 03:16
x264 | branch: master | Loren Merritt <pengvado (at) akuvian.org> | Tue Apr 22 17:16:25 2008 -0600| [27c3071979593d059a0929ca7b0ad82a762626f6]

drop support for pre-SSE3 assemblers

> http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/x264 ... 2a762626f6
---

common/cpu.c | 2 --
common/dct.c | 2 +-
common/pixel.c | 4 ----
common/quant.c | 4 +---
common/x86/dct-a.asm | 2 --
common/x86/mc-a.asm | 4 ----
common/x86/mc-a2.asm | 2 --
common/x86/mc-c.c | 14 --------------
common/x86/pixel-a.asm | 4 ----
common/x86/predict-c.c | 2 --
common/x86/quant-a.asm | 2 --
common/x86/sad-a.asm | 8 +-------
configure | 6 +-----
13 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)

Diff: http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/x264 ... 2a762626f6

[sdm]

Thank you, mac_man_ad, that worked like a charm!

To anyone else who may have difficulty with this on an Intel based Mac let me supplement jbrjake's instructions (some of this may be overkill but it worked for me).

1. download and unzip the source code jbrjake links to
2. open terminal and navigate to the new yasm-0.6.2 folder you just unzipped
3. run "./configure"
4. run "make"
5. run "sudo make install" (you'll obviously need an admin password for this one)
6. navigate to your HandBrake source folder
7. run "./configure"
8. run "./jam"

That should do it for you.


-Berylium

these instructions worked for me a month or two ago.

Now, on a fresh install of OSX 10.5.3, following these instructions results in:

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Last login: Sun Jun  8 10:05:49 on ttys000
sheldon-mcleans-mac-pro:~ sheldon$ cd yasm-0.6.2
sheldon-mcleans-mac-pro:yasm-0.6.2 sheldon$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... no
checking for awk... awk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for style of include used by make... none
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl.exe... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.
sheldon-mcleans-mac-pro:yasm-0.6.2 sheldon$ make
-bash: make: command not found
sheldon-mcleans-mac-pro:yasm-0.6.2 sheldon$ 

from the terminal.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,
--sdm.

[jbrjake]

...you remembered to install the dev tools, right?

[sdm]

...you remembered to install the dev tools, right?

um - I forgot that. Now all is well.
thanks!
-sdm.

[daman123x]

this is F"ing magic. the problem is yasm has a mac GUI installer that does nothing. this should really be posted in the wiki with the build instructions; you simply (and obviously) cannot compile hb in a mac environment without installing yasm in this method

[jbellanca]

Will yasm 0.7.1 work, or does it have to be 0.6.2?

EDIT: Couldn't build with 0.7.1, replaced with 0.6.2 and it worked perfectly... so in case anyone's wondering - 0.6.2.

Thanks!

[realityking]

On os x ist works fine with 0.7.1.2093, and sr55 also uses 0.7.1 in his windows guide.