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vizipok

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Registered: 2011-03-26

Posts: 23

How to compile mplayer with giflib support?

Hey all,

i am trying to compile mplayer (or mplayer2, i have tried several pkgbuilds from aur), as the package from extra doesn't have support for the the gif89a video_out driver. I have giflib package installed, so i have the /usr/lib/include/gif_lib.h in my filesystem. If i try to compile mplayer with the ./configure --enable-gif option, it fails with the following error message:

libmpdemux/demux_gif.o: In function `demux_close_gif':
demux_gif.c:(.text+0x39): undefined reference to `PrintGifError'
libmpdemux/demux_gif.o: In function `demux_open_gif':
demux_gif.c:(.text+0x293): undefined reference to `PrintGifError'
libmpdemux/demux_gif.o: In function `demux_gif_fill_buffer':
demux_gif.c:(.text+0x95b): undefined reference to `PrintGifError'
demux_gif.c:(.text+0xb1a): undefined reference to `PrintGifError'

...among others, because some other libraries (cdio_paranoia, theora and caca) have undefined references too. If i check the source of giflib, i see the missing function 'PrintGifError' in 'lib/gif_err.c', but i don't have this file on my filesystem. My question is from where should i obtain these sources, and where i need to place them to compile mplayer successfully?

Update: here is the whole list of errors, all of them are undefined references to various functions: http://pastebin.com/LttqXy5J

Last edited by vizipok (2013-06-03 11:53:20)

sl1pkn07

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From: Spanishtán

Registered: 2010-03-30

Posts: 371

Re: How to compile mplayer with giflib support?

according for this: https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit … ges/giflib

why update to 5.0.2 and re-updatd to 4.1.2?

vizipok

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Registered: 2011-03-26

Posts: 23

Re: How to compile mplayer with giflib support?

that's strange. i have 4.2.1-1

sl1pkn07

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From: Spanishtán

Registered: 2010-03-30

Posts: 371

Re: How to compile mplayer with giflib support?

yea. and I. in bugtracker don't show any report why this downgrade

Last edited by sl1pkn07 (2013-05-29 18:17:10)

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: How to compile mplayer with giflib support?

why this downgrade

Because there's lotsa compilation fails caused by the giflib API changing.

vizipok

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Registered: 2011-03-26

Posts: 23

Re: How to compile mplayer with giflib support?

so with the newer i would have lesser chance to compile mplayer, probably...

vizipok

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Registered: 2011-03-26

Posts: 23

Re: How to compile mplayer with giflib support?

nobody has any idea? nobody uses mplayer with giflib on arch?

vizipok

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Registered: 2011-03-26

Posts: 23

Re: How to compile mplayer with giflib support?

It looks like the issue is resolved, now the official mplayer and mplayer2 packages are compiled with giflib support.

Thanks for the maintainers!