[x264-devel] Latest git version fail to compile on openSUSE 11.2 Factory with --enable-mp4-output

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Rodney Baker <rodney.baker at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:33:42 Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Rodney Baker <rodney.baker at iinet.net.au>
> wrote:
>> > Hi all.
>> >
>> > I just tried to update x264 to the latest git release (ffmpeg now
>> > requires
>> >
>> >>=libx264-76) and ran the following;
>> >
>> > git pull
>> > make distclean
>> > ./configure --enable-shared --enable-mp4-output
>> > make
>> >
>> > The build failed with the following error:
>> >
>> > gcc -shared -o libx264.so.76 common/mc.o common/predict.o common/pixel.o
>> > common/macroblock.o common/frame.o common/dct.o common/cpu.o
>> > common/cabac.o common/common.o common/mdate.o common/set.o common/quant.o
>> > common/vlc.o encoder/analyse.o encoder/me.o encoder/ratecontrol.o
>> > encoder/set.o encoder/macroblock.o encoder/cabac.o encoder/cavlc.o
>> > encoder/encoder.o encoder/lookahead.o common/x86/mc-c.o
>> > common/x86/predict-c.o common/x86/cabac- a.o common/x86/dct-a.o
>> > common/x86/deblock-a.o common/x86/mc-a.o common/x86/mc- a2.o
>> > common/x86/pixel-a.o common/x86/predict-a.o common/x86/quant-a.o
>> > common/x86/sad-a.o common/x86/cpu-a.o common/x86/dct-32.o
>> > common/x86/pixel-32.o -Wl,-soname,libx264.so.76 -lm -lpthread
>> > -lgpac_static -s
>> > /usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.4/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld:
>> > cannot find -lgpac_static
>> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> > make: *** [libx264.so.76] Error 1
>> >
>> > Without --enable-mp4-output it compiled correctly. On previous revisions
>> > I have used --enable-mp4-output without any problems. Is there another
>> > package I need to update, downgrade or install to support this in the
>> > latest git version?
>>
>> As has always been true, you need gpac if you want to compile with mp4
>> output.  This hasn't changed.
>>
>> However, you don't need mp4 output if you're trying to use x264 with
>> ffmpeg, as ffmpeg has its own mp4 muxer.
>>
>> Dark Shikari
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> Ah, OK. Thanks. Unfortunately even with libx264.so.76 correctly complied and
> installed, ffmpeg failed to compile with an undefined reference to
> x264_encoder_open_76 in libavcodec.so (during the linking phase) but I've
> posted a query about that on the ffmpeg-user mailing list. It may need a bug
> report against the latest ffmpeg svn.

Works fine here.  Most likely you have an old x264 on your system that
ld is picking up instead of the new version.

Dark Shikari