What is this?

Here we have a build.sh script that's meant to build the binaries for fwplayer.exe and fwplayer_osx, the custom mplayer builds included with FrostWire for Desktop.

The build.sh script works on macOS to make a native binary and it also works in Ubuntu to cross compile a windows 64-bit binary

Build openssl

A build-openssl.sh script has been included for you to build fresh OpenSSL binaries and libraries, it's meant to work on both Ubuntu (perhaps on other Linux distros) and macOS

The resulting binaries will be stored in:

${HOME}/src/openssl-openssl-win64-x86_64 when building for Windows in macOS ${HOME}/src/openssl for macOS

Note: the current .tar.gz that it downloads from openssl.org has an error in on .c file where developers left a "return return value" at the end of a function, just remove the redundant "return" and try to rebuild again. This error should go away with further OpenSSL updates.

Ubuntu (x86_64)

We use Linux to cross-compile fwplayer.exe, the windows executable.

Make sure you have all dependencies and tools necessary to cross compile the code

./build-os-checkers.sh
./prepare-ubuntu-environment.sh
./build-openssl.sh

Build ./build.sh

That's it, you should have a fwplayer.exe binary on this folder when the script is done

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macOS

brew install upx
brew install yasm

building upx on mac from source

You will probably need to build ucl, here are some notes of how I managed to build on macOS with m1 (arm64) cpu https://gist.github.com/gubatron/c8ecee2d54033a0b131812324e5a7a33

Build fwplayer

Build mplayer and ffmpeg with minimum dependencies

./build-os-checkers.sh
./build-openssl.sh

Build

./build.sh

That's it, you should have a fwplayer_osx binary on this folder when the script is done