Fixed bug #812

Max Horn 2009-09-27 11:58:18 PDT I got build failure reports from various people for SDL-mixer on OS X when compiling in 64bit mode, both in 10.5 and 10.6. The reason: Deprecated QuickTime APIs that have been removed for 64bit binaries, see below. Proposed short-term workaround: Disable or just remove the crappy "native" MIDI code. It's rather bad anyway (I should know, i wrote it ;). Mid/long-term solution: Write new CoreAudio based code to replace it. That code then would work on all OS X versions (well, at least on 10.4 upwards for sure), be more accurate, sound better and take up less system resources. And be simpler, did I mention that? Generating MIDI output with CoreAudio is pretty easy, we do it in ScummVM, Exult, Pentagram, DOSBox, ...
libsdl-org · Sep 27, 2009 · 7b44d0d · 7b44d0d
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diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
@@ -221,8 +221,10 @@ AC_HELP_STRING([--enable-music-native-midi], [enable native MIDI music output [[
                 EXTRA_LDFLAGS="$EXTRA_LDFLAGS -lwinmm"
                 ;;
             *-*-darwin*)
-                use_music_native_midi=yes
-                EXTRA_LDFLAGS="$EXTRA_LDFLAGS -Wl,-framework,QuickTime -Wl,-framework,CoreServices"
+                # This doesn't work on Mac OS X 10.5+
+                # Max Horn (the original author) recommends disabling it for now.
+                #use_music_native_midi=yes
+                #EXTRA_LDFLAGS="$EXTRA_LDFLAGS -Wl,-framework,QuickTime -Wl,-framework,CoreServices"
                 ;;
         esac
         if test x$use_music_native_midi = xyes; then