Mplayer plugin compiler errors

[Suvayu Ali]

On Monday 18 January 2010 02:39 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Monday 18 January 2010 21:33:44 Smith, Herb wrote:
>> I downloaded the mplayer plugin for Firefox, unpacked it into a folder and
>>   tried to build it per the instructions with the default settings
>>   (configure then make).  I get an error that I'm missing a file and then I
>>   get numerous errors regarding things in some of the header files and other
>>   source files as though gcc is complaining about stuff that is not defined
>>   (perhaps defined in that missing file...)
>>
>> Here is what I get:
>>
>> include/npplat.h:42:19: error: npupp.h: No such file or directory
> [snip]
>> What am I missing here?
>
> Second, if you insist on compiling whatever you downloaded yourself,
>
> $ yum whatprovides */npupp.h
> qt3-devel-3.3.8b-28.fc12.x86_64 : Development files for the Qt 3 GUI toolkit
> qt3-devel-3.3.8b-28.fc12.i686 : Development files for the Qt 3 GUI toolkit
>
> so you should "yum install qt3-devel" and try again. If it reports another file
> missing, ask yum what package provides that file and install it. Rinse and
> repeat.

I find grepping for the error through the ./configure script or grepping 
for `include' in the source a good way to generate a list of 
dependencies before compiling something. :)

> HTH, :-)
> Marko

Just a thought ;)
-- 
Suvayu

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