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I can't imagine this would be a problem, since OS X is *nix after all.

did you read the man page for gcc.

-d doesn't seem to be a stand-alone option, but it seems to be used as a debugging flag.

you should check out fink or darwinports at opendarwin.org to see if anyone ported over a os x version. I know I've seen a standalone ffmpeg encoder ported, but don't know about the php business.

Also, from the man page:

Note: In Apple's version of GCC, both cc and gcc are actually symbolic links to gcc-3.3, while c++ and g++ are links to g++-3.3, unless the gcc_select(1) command has been used to point them at another compiler version.

Not sure if that helps.

yeah, saw all that before i posted.

-D is the debugging flag; -d is different. havent been able to find out what it does, so im not sure i can safely remove it from the makefile yet.

and ive compiled the ffmpeg encoder, but it also needs to have the codec libraries compiled and installed and that seems to be where im running into problems. i checked fink and didnt see any compiled ffmpeg versions available.

i posted to the ffmpeg-php page about installation here: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1204331&forum_id=417245

this gave me the new errors im getting with te -d flag.

and so it might not be gcc, but compiling under osx is different than other flavors of linux. and i dont know enough to get much farther than that. supposed to have a meeting tomorrow with some smart people here in richmond to see if we can nail it.

its just frustrating, esp when it seems so simple.

ill check darwinports. thanks for the suggestions, sorry ive already found most of that stuff out. (or rather, that i didnt make it clear that id been talking and digging with people for several hours before posting.)

a day later...
it turns out that with some hacking, we can skip past the -d option. but it does no good.

basically, there doesnt seem to be a way to compile the ffmpeg libraries (into .so files) on mac osx. this sucks, because the ffmpeg-php extension requires the libraries.

this is after a full day of reworking by someone smarter than me and a solid half day today by me.

darwinports does have ffmpeg, but again, it doesnt seem to compile the libraries together.

so, back to the drawing board maybe.