[indiana-discuss] Failed to compile gst-ffmpeg

[Praveen Kumar]

Praveen Kumar wrote:
> I am running OpenSolaris 2008.05 snv_93 with Sun Studio and most other 
> development tools installed. I have managed to compile GNU Emacs 23 
> successfully.
> 
> I am trying to compile gst-ffmpeg (0.10.4) and I am getting an error[1] 
> during the configure stage. Anyone managed to compile it successfully on 
> OpenSolaris? I am seeing some posts about successful compilation on 
> SXDE. I am not sure how it is different.
> 
> Lack of multimedia capability is a real blocker for me to wipe out 
> GNU/Linux from my hard-drive. Right now, I have to reboot into GNU/Linux 
> to play any media. Any help is appreciated.
> 
> [1] - http://opensolaris.pastebin.ca/1073577

However I was able to get gst-ffmpeg 0.10.3 successfully compiled using 
GNU ld. For some reason, even after using the --with-gnu-ld switch, 
gst-ffmpeg still was using /usr/ccs/bin/ld (that was symlinked to 
/usr/bin/ld). I didn't know how to tell it to use GNU ld. So, I pointed 
/usr/ccs/bin/ld to /usr/gnu/bin/ld. If I use Sun ld, I get an error 
message "relocations remain against allocatable but non-writable sections".

Use GNU ld:
$ cd /usr/ccs/bin
$ pfexec rm -f ld
$ pfexec ln -s ../../gnu/bin/ld

I actually don't recommend this one. But I didn't know any other quick 
way. Please note that this might affect anything that needs Sun ld in 
future. If you want to restore, do the following or make a backup before 
you do the above step.

$ cd /usr/ccs/bin
$ pfexec rm -f ld
$ pfexec ln -s ../../bin/ld

Build gst-ffmpeg:
$ wget 
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-ffmpeg/gst-ffmpeg-0.10.3.tar.bz2
$ tar -jxvf gst-ffmpeg-0.10.3.tar.bz2
$ cd gst-ffmpeg-0.10.3
$ ./configure --prefix=/full/path/to/your/install/dir
$ make

Copy the library to gstreamer directory:
$ pfexec cp ./ext/ffmpeg/.libs/libgstffmpeg.so /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/

After this, Totem plays media files supported by ffmpeg.

I am going to spend some time latter this evening to troubleshoot 
gst-ffmpeg 0.10.4 configure issue. I will post if I make any progress on it.

Thanks -
Praveen