Compiling avifile

[Aaron Grewell]

The writer of MPlayer was so irritated by the initial bugs in RH's gcc-2.96
that he makes everybody using it go through a nagware screen where you have
to type "gcc 2.96 is broken" or something like that.  Assuming you're
patched up it will compile fine once you select the correct configure option
and submit to the nag.  Read the docs very closely, however.  This is not
"configure, make, make install" software.  I can confirm that it plays my
divx-encoded avi's quite nicely now that I've got it working.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Davidson [mailto:harley7 at mnsi.net] 
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 4:33 PM
To: linux-users at linux-sxs.org
Subject: Re: Compiling avifile


I tried MPlayer first actually. ./configure didn't get any further than 
checking my compiler: gcc2.96. Is it really that bad? I tried it with a 
--no-debug option -or something like that- and it bombed. Maybe I'll try 
it again and try to find out what went wrong.

One question though. Why replace the libavcodec directory in the MPlayer 
directory with another one? Or did I misinterpret something? I hope I made 
that clear.

Bill

On Thursday 14 March 2002 05:50 pm, Net Llama wrote:
> Since i wrote that SxS, i guess i'm the default person to comment.  
> For starters, keep in mind that alot of the package versions in that 
> SxS have changed quite a bit.  You should make sure that you're 
> getting the latest of all of them before trying to build old code. 
> Next, the errors that you included don't appear to be all the errors, 
> since its already complaining about renderer.cpp. Also, it looks like 
> SDL isn't being found.  Make sure that you have it installed, and if 
> you do, you'll prolly need to pass a ./configure line to tell it where 
> SDL is. And finally, i should note/admit that i gave up on avifile 
> shortly after i wrote that SxS.  I couldn't get the more recent 
> versions to build on any of my boxes, and my requests for assistance 
> from the avifile team went unanswered.
> See my other SxS for building MPlayer.  Its what i use these days, and i
> rather like it.
>
> HTH,
> Lonni

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