[vlc-devel] vlc build problem ... recompile with -fPIC ??

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le 26 décembre 2022 18:45:14 GMT+01:00, Mahesh Velankar <mvelanka at gmail.com> a écrit :
>I am an absolute newbie to vlc.
>I cloned git repo and tried to build vlc with these steps
>
>
>   1. bootstrap
>   2. ./configure --enable-static --disable-lua --disable-xcb --disable-qt
>   --disable-a52
>   3. make
>
>
>It is throwing this error in the linking step.
>
>
>/usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libsrt.a(srt_c_api.cpp.o): relocation
>R_X86_64_PC32 against symbol
>`_ZTVSt9basic_iosIcSt11char_traitsIcEE@@GLIBCXX_3.4'
>can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
>/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value
>collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>Makefile:13024: recipe for target 'libaccess_srt_plugin.la' failed
>make[4]: *** [libaccess_srt_plugin.la] Error 1
>
>Please help me on how to proceed with this build
>Let me know what more details I need to provide.
>
>Thanks

Hi,

You seem to have a faulty build of SRT installed under /usr/local. This error wouldn't happen on a fresh clean build environment.