[MPlayer-users] Multiple undefined reference, I don't know whatto do.

[John Brown]

Nico Sabbi wrote:
>The Wanderer wrote:
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>>>I have installed the next library: libavcodec-dev, libavcodec0d,
>>>libavformat-dev, libavformat0d, libpostproc0d, libpostproc-dev, but
>>>nothing :-(.
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>>Most of this would probably be because MPlayer does not use external
>>FFmpeg - in other words, installing libav* packages does you no good at
>>all unless some other program wants them. You have to have copies of the
>>libav* source directories inside your MPlayer source tree.
>
>what are you saying?
>I committed code to support external libavcodec and libavformat several 
>months ago,
>and since then I've been using them this way
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Can you elaborate on this? I am a Windows user. How do I install
libavcodec, libavformat, etc. as external libraries? Is there a special
method, or do I simply copy headers and libraries to the compilers's
search path?