norbusan / plex-media-player

Next generation Plex Desktop/Embedded Client

Building

You need:

• Qt 5.6 alpha
• cmake 3.0 or newer
• ninja is recommended for building

Special Qt requirements:

• On Windows, you must apply qt-patches/0003-Always-enable-viewport-stuff.patch for correct window scaling. The patches in qt-patches/qt-5.6-alpha/ fix some stability issues.

• On OSX, you should apply qt-patches/0002-qtbase-Don-t-show-the-menu-bar-at-all-in-lion-style-fullscr.patch to improve the user experience in fullscreen.

• You can try to use Qt 5.5, but then you also need to apply the following patches:

  • qt-patches/0001-qtwebengine-Add-a-backgroundColor-property.patch
  • qt-patches/0004-qtwebengine-transparency-window-creation.patch

  Without them, video playback will not work.

Get dependencies:

• scripts/fetch-binaries.py -p darwin-x86_64

If you're happy just building from the command line then run CMake for the ninja build tool:

• mkdir build ; cd build
• cmake -GNinja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DQTROOT=/path/to/qt -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=output ..

Build (ninja):

• ninja

Make a distributable package:

• ninja install (be patient, it's slow)

Or if you prefer working in Xcode, run CMake for the xcode build):

• mkdir build ; cd build
• cmake -GXcode -DQTROOT=/path/to/qt ..

License

Plex Media Player is licensed under GPL v2. See the LICENSE file. Licenses of dependencies are summarized under resources/misc/licenses.txt. This file can also be printed at runtime when using the --licenses option.