Compiling MPlayer on Ubuntu Hoary
Posted on Friday, April 8, 2005 in Uncategorized
After discovering the Ubuntu MPlayer package is broken for non-P4 systems, I decided to compile from source. I followed MacEwan’s instructions, but I was getting a strange compile error…
/usr/lib/libGL.a(glxcmds.o)(.text+0x2eea): In function `glXGetMscRateOML': : undefined reference to `XF86VidModeQueryVersion' /usr/lib/libGL.a(glxcmds.o)(.text+0x2f1a): In function `glXGetMscRateOML': : undefined reference to `XF86VidModeGetModeLine' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [mplayer] Error 1
Turns out there’s a package missing:
$ sudo apt-get install libxxf86vm-dev
And everything compiles cleanly now!
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08 Apr 2005 1:30 pm
Thanks alot! I just got over the same error, and did not know which package I was missing. I owe you one.
08 Apr 2005 1:30 pm
Thanks for this – I was just recompiling and hit this error. Small world etc etc
08 Apr 2005 1:30 pm
If you are still having problems make’ing after installing libxxf86vm-dev, do a ./configure again. That fixed it for me.
08 Apr 2005 1:30 pm
post your fin command lines if you’re going to talk about compiling files or shut the F up!
08 Apr 2005 1:30 pm
Me too, and it took me half an hour to figure out why! By the way, do you have any idea why it takes so long to compile Mplayer, that’s even longer than compiling kernels!!!!
08 Apr 2005 1:30 pm
I installed libxxf86vm-dev but I’m still getting the same error when I try to compile mplayer.
08 Apr 2005 1:30 pm
same issue,I installed the “tricky” dependency,but Im still getting the same error
08 Apr 2005 1:30 pm
yep, thats it working now - after 3 compiles, first time without this, second time without the enable gui switch, just a note, remember to use this.