[FFmpeg-user] problem with make while attempting to build git clone of ffmpeg on OS X 10.6.8

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Paul Sturbaum <psturbs <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Just to be clear....  You want me to run
> 
> $ ./configure
> $ make
> $ gcc -Llibavcodec -Llibavdevice -Llibavfilter -Llibavformat 
> -Llibavresample -Llibavutil -Llibpostproc -Llibswscale -Llibswresample 
> -Wl,-dynamic,-search_paths_first  -o ffmpeg_g ffmpeg_opt.o 
> ffmpeg_filter.o ffmpeg.o cmdutils.o  -lavdevice -lavfilter -lavformat 
> -lavcodec -lswresample -lswscale -lavutil -L/opt/local/lib -lSDLmain 
> -Wl,-framework,AppKit -lSDL -Wl,-framework,Cocoa -lm -liconv -lbz2 -lz 
> 
> and then try moving the -liconv flag to just before 
> -L/opt/local/lib flag. RIght?

Yes and while you added output without your gcc line 
I assume you tested it but it still did not work;-(

> Here is the out from the first set of commands:
> 
> Undefined symbols:
>   "_iconv_close", referenced from:
>       _avcodec_decode_subtitle2 in libavcodec.a(utils.o)

As said this does not happen inside configure 
which uses a not-too-different line...

> Here is the output with -liconv moved to just before 
> -L/opt/local/lib:
> 
> Undefined symbols:
>   "_iconv_close", referenced from:
>       _avcodec_decode_subtitle2 in libavcodec.a(utils.o)

Which is the same problem;-(

If you would like to test something else, you could try 
to remove "-L/opt/local/lib", "-Wl,-framework,AppKit" 
and "-Wl,-framework,Cocoa" (one at a time) just to test 
if the output changes (compilation cannot succeed but 
maybe that changes something about how iconv is linked).

I wanted to suggest --disable-libsdl but I just realize 
it does not exist;-((

Another thing to try would be to edit the original 
linking line (above) so that instead of "gcc" you 
use "gcc -Wl,-v" - this will produce a huge output 
but perhaps it tells us what stupid things the linker 
does.

Finally, I just realize that I did have a similar 
problem on my ppc once:
Could you try to locate a static iconv library on your 
computer? Something like /usr/lib/libiconv.2.a ?
If you find it, you could try to add it to above line 
just as an additional object (perhaps after cmdutils.o) 
with its complete path.

Thank you, Carl Eugen