[MPlayer-users] Problem in Compiling MPlayer

[Martin Simmons]

>>>>> On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 20:12:54 +0200, Torinthiel <torinthiel at megapolis.pl> said:

  Torinthiel> On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 10:30:49AM -0700, Helmi Kurniawan wrote:
  >> 
  >> Hi,
  >> 
  >> Yes, I have checked out asm/ldt.h and it define the
  >> structure for modify_ldt_ldt_s and also there is no
  >> message saying that missing ldt.h
  >> 
  >> For your information, my Kernel version is
  >> linux-2.4.27. How do I define __linux__?

  Torinthiel> You could, of course, pass -D__linux__ to compiler, but that's the WRONG
  Torinthiel> way. The compiler should set it. At least mine gcc does - when I wrote a
  Torinthiel> test program

  Torinthiel> int main(void)
  Torinthiel> {
  Torinthiel> #ifdef __linux__
  Torinthiel> printf("foo");
  Torinthiel> #endif
  Torinthiel> printf("bar\n");
  Torinthiel> }

  Torinthiel> and compiled it without any options, just pure gcc test.c
  Torinthiel> and run the resulting binary it printed foobar.
  Torinthiel> Maybe your's set __LINUX__, or LINUX or __linux - you could check with
  Torinthiel> test like one above.

Compiling with gcc -v will show what is being defined.

__Martin