vlc 0.2.92 & libSDL

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Luca \"Keeno\" Olivari wrote:
> Hi, I've just downloaded vlc 0.2.92  for RH (I've a RH 7.2) and when I
> try to install I receive a failed dependencies error: 
> 
> LibSDL-1.1.so.0 is needed by vlc 0.2.92-1
> 
> Obviously I've downloaded & installed libdvdcss1 (normal & devel)
> where can I find that library?
> do I need it also for my debian 2.2.r5?
> Thanks for your help
> 


The RedHat only has -1.2 of the library. Here is a way to get XVideo and
   libSDL-1.1.so.0 right for your system.

On this mailing-list there are some regular reports about missing
SDL-1.1 and Xvideo shared libraries on RedHat 7.2 systems. Therefore I
created this shell script to patch that system. It is only needed for
people who like to use SDL and or Xvideo output plugins for vlc.

#!/bin/sh
#
# Patch for vlc (www.videolan.org)
# and xine (xine.sourceforge.net)
# ===============================
# 3.5.2 The Xv video-out plugin fails to compile!
#
#      If you want to have Xv support compiled in, make sure you either
#      have
#      a shared Xv library on your system, e.g. ls /usr/X11R6/lib/libXv*
#      should give you some .so libs, like this:
#
#      /usr/X11R6/lib/libXv.a
#      /usr/X11R6/lib/libXv.so
#      /usr/X11R6/lib/libXv.so.1
#
#      Alternatively you need to have libtool 1.4 or newer installed. If
#      not
#      and you only got libXv.a you can create the shared versions
#      yourself:
#
#       ld --whole-archive -shared -o libXv.so.1 libXv.a
#       ln -s libXv.so.1 libXv.so
#       ldconfig
#
#      Now you should be ready to build the Xv video-out plugin on your
#      system.
#
###############################################################################

if [ `whoami` != 'root' ]
then
     echo "Run this script as root."
     exit -1
fi

echo -n "Testing if patch is needed:"
if [ ! -f /usr/X11R6/lib/libXv.a ]
then
     echo "XFree86-devel-4.1.0-3 is not installed."
     echo "Install the packages from RedHat distribution first."
     exit -1
fi

if [ -f /usr/X11R6/lib/libXv.so.1 ] &&
[ -f /usr/X11R6/lib/libXv.so ]
then
     echo "Patch is not needed.";
     exit -1
else
     echo "Patch Xvideo setup."
     cd /usr/X11R6/lib
     /usr/bin/ld --whole-archive -shared -o libXv.so.1 libXv.a
     [ -f /usr/X11R6/lib/libXv.so ] || rm /usr/X11R6/lib/libXv.so
     /bin/ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/libXv.so.1 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXv.so
     /sbin/ldconfig
fi

#
# SDL output of vlc expects libSDL-1.1, but RedHat supplies libSDL-1.2.
#
if [ -f /usr/lib/libSDL-1.1.so.0 ]
then
    echo -n "Testing if patch is needed:"
    echo "SDL patch is not needed."
    exit -1
else
    echo -n "Patch SDL setup."
    ln -s /usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0 /usr/lib/libSDL-1.1.so.0
    echo "done."
fi
echo "done."

# end of patch script


Kind greetings,

Jean-Paul Saman



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