Compile and install on OS X (Arm64)

[jekkos]

I wanted to share my experience building this on OSX. In my case, I want only the libfreenect part of the plugin.

** Building **

• Libfreenect2 currently does not compile due to some reason (?), disabled it as I did not need it
• k4a tries to download v1.4.1 from github which does not exist. It's 1.4.2, disabled it as well
• Linking against libobs was tricky, had to rename some files in obs-studio to make it work with clang++

The build does not specifically support arm64, only x86 and x86_64 but it does seem to work and arm64 binaries end up in 32bit folder.

** Installing **
On OS X, plugins should be moved to ~/Library/Application Support/obs-studio/plugins and be bundled as a .plugin . Does not seem very obvious, moving the .dynlib files in the packaged folder structure does not have the plugin detected. I stopped here as I realised I could not use the obs virtual camera due to the device being managed by a policy

[jekkos]

@SirLynix I found some documentation on how to setup an OS X plugin build with notarization enabled: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-plugintemplate/wiki/Quick-Start-Guide#macos

I might give it a try and convert code here to the is x template to get it working.. I wonder why xmake was used instead of the official template as a starting point?

[SirLynix]

Thanks a lot for your efforts.

I might give it a try and convert code here to the is x template to get it working.. I wonder why xmake was used instead of the official template as a starting point?

Mostly because I wasn't aware of the official plugin template, otherwise I would have considered it.

However, when I started to work on obs-kinect, the plugin template was very different, it sounds way more interesting today.

As for xmake, and premake before that, I used them because they are the tools I'm familiar with (I'm not a heavy cmake fan), but I'm not opposed to cmake in any way.

however I think this plugin is a bit more complex than what expected for the plugin template (due to the use of multiple libraries), I'm not sure how it should work in that case.

[jekkos]

Indeed I might just want to convert the part I need, so only libreenect dependency for kinect 1. I guess it might be more doable this way. Or at least try this as a starting point.

The packaging for OS x seems quite specific

[girlsperhour]

Hello! If I wanted to attempt this myself and do not compile things often, is everything I need to know here in this thread? Do I start with running the xmake.lua script?