[MPlayer-users] mplayer cvs: impossible to compile

[Jozef Riha]

On 5/14/06, Guillaume POIRIER <poirierg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 5/14/06, Jozef Riha <jose1711 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 5/11/06, Jozef Riha <jose1711 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > very strange. i copied libavcodec/, libavformat/ and libavutil/ into
> > > main just like the project webpage suggested. moreover in configure
> > > summary the libavcodec *is* enabled.
>
> > ok, i found out that even ffmpeg-cvs fails to compile w/ the same
> > error. i was able to fix (?) this by using --disable-zlib compilation
> > flag. now i am wondering how to pass this flag to mplayer config. any
> > help welcome, joe
>
> First of all, please do not top post on that list:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting
>
> Your problem is odd... It could be due to a version of zlib which
> would be too old, but I doubt it. Please make sure you have latest
> zlib + dev headers.
>
> I don't think it's possible to compile mplayer without zlib.... but
> I'm not certain
>
> G
> --

issue solved. zlib package headers were out-dated (no idea why --
/var/log/packages did show the right version). now it compiles fine.
thank you, bye. joe