How to build mpv & mpv.app on an Apple silicon (M1 / M2) Mac

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Preparations

Before you can build mpv & mpv.app on an Apple silicon (M1 / M2) Mac, there's a couple of required dependencies you'll need to install if you haven't already:

1. Go to System Preferences > Software Update. If there's anything there to update, do it.

2. If you don't have the Xcode Command Line Tools installed, run xcode-select --install and select Install on the prompt that appears.

3. If you don't have Homebrew installed, follow the instructions here.

4. If you've never run brew install --only-dependencies mpv, do so now.

You'll also need a local copy of the mpv repo, which you can get by running git clone https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv.

You can now run the attached script to build mpv & mpv.app on an Apple silicon Mac yourself. Just make sure you're in the root directory of the cloned repo beforehand.

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Updating

Going forward, you can update your local copy of the repo by running the following commands from its root directory:

git reset --hard
git clean --force -d -x
git pull origin master

build-mpv_silicon.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

cd mpv
git reset --hard
git clean --force -d -x
git pull origin master

set -x

# use standalone tools, not Xcode's (avoids xcrun errors)
export DEVELOPER_DIR="/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/"

# if anything fails, gtfo
set -ex

meson setup build
meson compile -C build
# test
./build/mpv --version
# build mpv.app
python3 TOOLS/osxbundle.py -s build/mpv

cd /Applications
ln -sf ~/builds/mpv-build/mpv/build/mpv.app .