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

readme.md

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.

5. If you've never run brew install meson, 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

# builds mpv & mpv.app on Apple silicon (M1 / M2) Macs
# run this script from the root directory of the mpv repo

# if anything fails, gtfo
set -ex

meson setup build
meson compile -C build
# test the binary we just built
./build/mpv --version
./TOOLS/osxbundle.py --skip-deps build/mpv