[MPlayer-users] Current build from the repo... fails...

[George R Goffe]

Howdy,

I'm having trouble building mplayer on my Fedora 41 system with gcc "gcc (GCC) 14.0.1 20240411 (Red Hat 14.0.1-0)".  

Could I get some help with this please?

Here's what I'm getting:

cc -MMD -MP -Wundef -Wall -Wno-switch -Wno-parentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wredundant-decls -Werror=format-security
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wdisabled-optimization -Wno-pointer-sign -Wdeclaration-after-statemen
t -std=c11 -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200112 -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600 -D_ISOC99_SOURCE -
I. -Iffcfg-common.h:464:14: warning: initialization discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdisca
rded-qualifiers]
 464 |     {"vivo", vivoopts_conf, CONF_TYPE_SUBCONFIG, 0, 0, 0, NULL},
     |              ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
cfg-common.h:466:15: warning: initialization discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qu
alifiers]
 466 |     {"dvbin", dvbin_opts_conf, CONF_TYPE_SUBCONFIG, 0, 0, 0, NULL},
     |               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
cfg-common.h:506:16: warning: initialization discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qu
alifiers]
 506 |     {"af-adv", audio_filter_conf, CONF_TYPE_SUBCONFIG, 0, 0, 0, NULL},
     |                ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
cfg-common.h:509:65: warning: initialization discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qu
alifiers]
 509 |     {"vf*", &vf_settings, CONF_TYPE_OBJ_SETTINGS_LIST, 0, 0, 0, &vf_obj_list},
     |                                                                 ^
cfg-common.h:519:16: warning: initialization discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qu
alifiers]
 519 |     {"pphelp", pp_help, CONF_TYPE_PRINT, CONF_NOCFG, 0, 0, NULL},
     |                ^~~~~~~
cfg-common.h:525:13: warning: initialization discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qu
alifiers]
 525 |     {"ssf", scaler_filter_conf, CONF_TYPE_SUBCONFIG, 0, 0, 0, NULL},
     |             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
cfg-common.h:547:18: warning: initialization discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qu
alifiers]
 547 |     {"lavdopts", lavc_decode_opts_conf, CONF_TYPE_SUBCONFIG, 0, 0, 0, NULL},
     |                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
cfg-common.h:548:20: warning: initialization discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qu
alifiers]
 548 |     {"lavfdopts",  lavfdopts_conf, CONF_TYPE_SUBCONFIG, CONF_GLOBAL, 0, 0, NULL},
     |                    ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
cfg-mplayer.h:354:16: warning: initialization discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-q
ualifiers]
 354 |     {"tvscan", tvscan_conf, CONF_TYPE_SUBCONFIG, 0, 0, 0, NULL},
     |                ^~~~~~~~~~~
cfg-mplayer.h:361:15: warning: initialization discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-q
ualifiers]
 361 |     {"-hifiers]
 460 |     {"pvr", pvropts_conf, CONF_TYPE_SUBCONFIG, 0, 0, 0, NULL},
     |             ^~~~~~~~~~~~
cfg-common.h:464:14: warning: initialization discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qu
alifiers]
 464 |     {"vivo", vivoopts_conf, CONF_TYPE_SUBCONFIG, 0, 0, 0, NULL},
     |              ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
cfg-common.h:466:15: warning: initialization discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qu
alifiers]
 466 |     {"dvbin", dvbin_opts_conf, CONF_TYPE_SUBCONFIG, 0, 0, 0, NULL},
     |               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
cfg-common.h:506:16: warning: initialization discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qu
alifiers]
 506 |     {"af-adv", audio_filter_conf, CONF_TYPE_SUBCONFIG, 0, 0, 0, NULL},
     |                ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
cfg-common.h:509:65: warning: initialization discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qu
alifiers]
 509 |     {"vf*", &vf_settings, CONF_TYPE_OBJ_SETTINGS_LIST, 0, 0, 0, &vf_obj_list},
     |                                                                 ^
cfg-common.h:519:16: warning: initialization discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qu
alifiers]
 519 |     {"pphelp", pp_help, CONF_TYPE_PRINT, CONF_NOCFG, 0, 0, NULL},
     |                ^~~~~~~
cfg-common.h:525:13: warning: initialization discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qu
alifiers]
 525 |     {"ssf", scaler_filter_conf, CONF_TYPE_SUBCONFIG, 0, 0, 0, NULL},
     |             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
cfg-common.h:547:18: warning: initialization discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qu
alifiers]
 547 |     {"mplayer.c: In function 'main':
mplayer.c:3539:41: error: passing argument 2 of 'stream_write_buffer' from incompatible pointer type [-Wincompat
ible-pointer-types]
3539 |                 stream_write_buffer(os, &in_size, 4);
     |                                         ^~~~~~~~
     |                                         |
     |                                         int *
In file included from ./mp_core.h:26,
                from gui/interface.h:23,
                from mplayer.c:73:
./stream/stream.h:203:53: note: expected 'unsigned char *' but argument is of type 'int *'
 203 | int stream_write_buffer(stream_t *s, unsigned char *buf, int len);
     |                                      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~
make: *** [Makefile:730: mplayer.o] Error 1