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dedhart

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Registered: 2006-07-02

Posts: 123

Cannot compile mplayer <needs libpng-dev>

Trying to optimize my mplayer, & getting the following error:

Error: PNG support required for GUI compilation, please install libpng and libpng-dev packages.

Check "configure.log" if you do not understand why it failed.
Makefile:7: config.mak: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `config.mak'.  Stop.

I tried to install libpng & libpng-dev

 # pacman -S libpng
:: libpng-1.2.12-1: is up to date.  Upgrade anyway? [Y/n] n
 # pacman -S libpng-dev
libpng-dev: not found in sync db

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Cannot compile mplayer <needs libpng-dev>

There's no -dev packages in Arch. libpng should be enough. BTW, do you have pkgconfig installed?
Also, you didn't post the actual error message. It's probably somewhere above the snippet you posted or in configure.log

dedhart

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Registered: 2006-07-02

Posts: 123

Re: Cannot compile mplayer <needs libpng-dev>

Well everything above the snippet looks good, and I don't have a configure.log

dedhart

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Registered: 2006-07-02

Posts: 123

Re: Cannot compile mplayer <needs libpng-dev>

so why would it need libpng-dev? anyone else having trouble compiling mplayer?

neodreams

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Registered: 2006-03-20

Posts: 87

Re: Cannot compile mplayer <needs libpng-dev>

No, but Mplayer crash a lot since xorg 7.1 update in Testing, when I click a lot on play/stop and when I click on right mouse button to open the menu. Don't know if it's related to your problem. But i'm not 100% sure.

Going to fill bug