compiling on MacOSX

[Eric Carlson]

Here's what you need to do:

ranlib lib/*.a
make

That will fix the libraries, then restart the make process where it left 
off and should finish successfully. Otherwise, see here:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/macosx.html

Eric

On Wednesday, April 18, 2001, at 10:54  PM, DJ RawheaD wrote:

> Hi, I'm new to the list...
>
> I'm trying to build vlc on OSX.  Everything seems to work fine until at 
> the end, I get the following errors and the build halts.  I'm sorry but 
> I'm a total newbie in *NIX and any help will be appreciated.
>
> ----------------------------------------
> cc: unrecognized option `-rdynamic'
> /usr/bin/ld: archive: lib/ps.a has no table of contents, add one with 
> ranlib(1) (can't load from it)
> /usr/bin/ld: archive: lib/ts.a has no table of contents, add one with 
> ranlib(1) (can't load from it)
> /usr/bin/ld: archive: lib/yuv.a has no table of contents, add one with 
> ranlib(1) (can't load from it)
> /usr/bin/ld: archive: lib/idct.a has no table of contents, add one with 
> ranlib(1) (can't load from it)
> /usr/bin/ld: archive: lib/idctclassic.a has no table of contents, add 
> one with ranlib(1) (can't load from it)
> /usr/bin/ld: archive: lib/motion.a has no table of contents, add one 
> with ranlib(1) (can't load from it)
> /usr/bin/ld: archive: lib/dvd.a has no table of contents, add one with 
> ranlib(1) (can't load from it)
> /usr/bin/ld: archive: lib/dummy.a has no table of contents, add one 
> with ranlib(1) (can't load from it)
> /usr/bin/ld: archive: lib/null.a has no table of contents, add one with 
> ranlib(1) (can't load from it)
> /usr/bin/ld: archive: lib/macosx.a has no table of contents, add one 
> with ranlib(1) (can't load from it)
> make: *** [vlc] Error 1
> ------------------------------------------
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> RawheaD
>
>