On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 03:49:48PM -0600, Todd Pytel wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 08:35:06 -0600
> Benjamin Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I am a newbie but I thought I should try to install mplayer from
> > source. So I downloaded the tarball source for mplayer 1.0pre3 and,
> > using gcc3.33 compiler on Xandros 2.0 (Debian), I compiled it. It
> > looks fine but nothing happens when I try to launch it.
>
> Your enthusiasm is admirable, and it is generally a good learning
> experience compiling things from source. Mplayer, however, is not the
> package to do this with, as you're finding out. It's incredibly tedious,
> has a zillion optional codecs, some of which are hard to find and
> conflict with one another, and generally leaves you with a huge variety
> of libraries, codecs, includes, and other crap lying around your
> filesystem. Trust me, I've done it. It was a stupid exercise, entirely
> not worth the trouble.
It's hard but only "first order hard" -- just keep plodding and you'll
get it. And I like to do it from source so I know it's optimal.
Here's my changes to the debian/rules file:
configure-stamp:
dh_testdir
# Add here commands to configure the package.
$(checkdir)
./configure --prefix=/usr --confdir=/etc/mplayer \
--enable-live --with-livelibdir=/x/b/mplay/live \
--with-win32libdir=/usr/local/lib/extralite \
--with-win32libdir=/usr/local/lib/extralite \
--with-reallibdir=/usr/local/lib/extralite \
--with-xanimlibdir=/usr/local/lib/xanimdlls \
--enable-gui $(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)
because I unpack the extralite and xanimdlls to that place,
and I've done the live stuff from source to that place.
Just run fakeroot debian/rules configure | less until you've gotten
all the *-dev packages installed. Usually it's clear what packages to
install, but sometimes I had to look carefully at the makefile to see
why the test was failing.
For convenience, I've put a list of all my installed packages here:
http://home.comcast.net/~40101.nospam/pkg
Getting RTSP:// and PNM:// RealMedia streaming was the *last* thing I
got working: to do that, you need to download and build the live.com
stuff.
It's a very rewarding exercise to get it going. It probably took me
about a week to get everything but live.com going, then a few months
later it took me another week to figure that out.
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