12.2. *BSD
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## 12.2. *BSD

MPlayer runs on all known BSD flavors. There are ports/pkgsrc/fink/etc versions of MPlayer available that are probably easier to use than our raw sources.

To build MPlayer you will need GNU make (gmake - native BSD make will not work) and a recent version of binutils.

If MPlayer complains about not finding `/dev/cdrom` or `/dev/dvd`, create an appropriate symbolic link:

    ln -s /dev/your_cdrom_device /dev/cdrom

To use Win32 DLLs with MPlayer you will need to re-compile the kernel with "`option USER_LDT`" (unless you run FreeBSD-CURRENT, where this is the default).

### 12.2.1. FreeBSD

If your CPU has SSE, recompile your kernel with "`options CPU_ENABLE_SSE`" (FreeBSD-STABLE or kernel patches required).

### 12.2.2. OpenBSD

Due to limitations in different versions of gas (relocation vs MMX), you will need to compile in two steps: First make sure that the non-native as is first in your `$PATH` and do a gmake -k, then make sure that the native version is used and do gmake.

As of OpenBSD 3.4 the hack above is no longer needed.

### 12.2.3. Darwin

See the Mac OS section.

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