This is a short summary of development environment requirements for building Apprentice Video player and Aeyae Remux for Mac/Windows/Linux.
Download Apprentice Video Mac/Windows binaries: https://sourceforge.net/projects/apprenticevideo/.
Download Aeyae Remux Mac/Windows binaries: https://sourceforge.net/projects/aeyae-remux/.
git clone https://github.com/pkoshevoy/aeyae.git
cd aeyae
git submodule update --init --recursive
git clone https://github.com/pkoshevoy/libhdhomerun.git
cd libhdhomerun
git checkout add-cmake
mkdir -p ../libhdhomerun-build
cd ../libhdhomerun-build
cmake-gui ../libhdhomerun # Configure (adjust paths as desired), Generate
nice make -j8 && make install
mkdir -p ../aeyae-build
cd ../aeyae-build
cmake-gui ../aeyae # Configure (adjust paths as desired), Generate
nice make -j8 && make install
OpenGL is used for frame rendering, so make sure you have OpenGL drivers for your graphics card.
http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html
CMake is used to configure the build (to generate projects, or makefiles).
https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/4.7/
Qt is the cross platform C++ UI toolkit. Use Qt 4.7+ for OS X 10.5, OS X 10.6, and 32-bit windows builds. Use Qt 5.6+ for newer versions of macOS and 64-bit windows builds.
Boost is used for its shared pointer and threading libraries.
GLEW is an OpenGL extension wrangler library.
http://www.portaudio.com/download.html
Portaudio is used for audio playback on Windows and Linux.
http://ffmpeg.org/download.html
FFmpeg is used for video/audio demuxing and decoding.
http://code.google.com/p/libass/
libass is used for high quality subtitle rendering.
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fontconfig/
FontConfig is required by libass for accessing system fonts.
http://www.dependencywalker.com/
depends.exe is used for automatic external dependency detection by wixWrapper (instead of wix harvester tool). When building x86 version of Apprentice Video you'll need the 32-bit version of depends.exe; for x64 build you'll need the 64-bit version...
WiX is used to build the installer package. I've only used/tested WiX 3.5 and do not know whether later versions work as well.
You can try and build ffmpeg yourself from source using MinGW. You can compile using Visual Studio 2010 (or 2012) and c99-to-c89 converter (this is what I used to do -- see http://www.ffmpeg.org/platform.html for details). However, you may find it much easier to use the Zeranoe builds instead.
Visual C++ 2008 SP1 or 2010 SP1 are recommended. VS Express Edition will work. Version 2010 or 2012 is required if you decide to compile ffmpeg yourself using c99-to-c89 converter. MinGW/MSYS development has not been tested, but should work.
It is possible to compile FontConfig for Windows using MinGW tool-chain. However, I've also patched fontconfig 2.10 to add CMake config file to enable native win32 compilation in Visual Studio using CMake. This is what I currently use.
You can easily build prerequisite libraries from source yourself, but macports can do it for you. If you run into problems where install_name_tool fails and suggests using -headerpad_max_install_names linker option -- you may try building from source yourself (make sure to use the
-headerpad_max_install_names option), or you can do a dirty hack and make /usr/bin/ld always use the -headerpad_max_install_names switch:
sudo mv /usr/bin/ld /usr/bin/ld.bin
sudo printf '#!/bin/sh\nexec /usr/bin/ld.bin -headerpad_max_install_names $*\n' > /usr/bin/ld
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/bin/ld
sudo port uninstall ffmpeg
sudo port install ffmpeg
Use the package management mechanism provided by your Linux distribution (apt, yast, yum, etc...) to install required tools and development libraries (git, cmake, Qt 4, boost, glew, portaudio, yasm). Use of the latest FFmpeg pulled from git is recommended, because compilation against libav is not tested often and may not work.
If you would like to enable MOD file playback (MOD, XM, S3M, IT, etc...), compile libmodplug and make sure to enable modplug support when configuring ffmpeg build.