[MPlayer-users] RE: Welcome to the "MPlayer-users" mailing list

[Sascha Sommer]

> robert.szabo at vodafone.com wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > First of all: Yes I read all the available documents...  :)
> > But still have problem with compiling Mplayer 1.0pre3
> >
> > During compile I've got following message:
> > make -C libmpcodecs
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/temp/MPlayer-1.0pre3/libmpcodecs'
> >
cc -c -O4 -march=k6-2 -mcpu=k6-2 -pipe -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -D_R
EENTRANT -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64  -I. -Inative -I.. -I../
libmpdemux -I../loader  -D_GNU_SOURCE -I../libmpflac -o vd_lcl.o vd_lcl.c
> > vd_lcl.c: In function `init':
> > vd_lcl.c:222: error: `Z_NO_COMPRESSION' undeclared (first use in this
function)
> > vd_lcl.c:222: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> > vd_lcl.c:222: error: for each function it appears in.)
> > vd_lcl.c:222: error: `Z_BEST_COMPRESSION' undeclared (first use in this
function)
> > make[1]: *** [vd_lcl.o] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/temp/MPlayer-1.0pre3/libmpcodecs'
> > make: *** [libmpcodecs/libmpcodecs.a] Error 2
> >
> > I've some idea about maybe zlib missing
>
> This does indeed look like the problem. For some reason, configure is
> detecting zlib and enabling the appropriate parts of the code, but zlib
> is not actually there (or at least not actually usable).
>
> Where on your system is zlib.h? Does it in fact define those two terms?
> If so, simply adding
> '--with-extraincdir=/path/to/directory-with-zlib.h'
> (on my system, it'd be '--with-extraincdir=/usr/include', but that's
> automatically searched anyway) to your ./configure command line ought to
> fix the problem. If not, I don't know if I can help you - I know how I'd
> go about working on the problem on my own machine, but I don't think I
> can do that remotely.
>

No it is a bug that is fixed in cvs.
(Using the define even when compiled without zlib)

Sascha