Building VLC under Zenwalk 5.4 beta

[tooth20]

I've searched the forum, but not found anything that looks relevant.

I maintain VLC for Zenwalk. Recently, I got a complaint that the last VLC build I made didn't support xvid under Zenwalk 5.4 beta. When I checked, the complaint was correct - I got the control panel and sound, but no video. Attempting to enable it got me a 'doesn't support xvid' message. Since that build works under the development version of 5.4, but fails under the beta, something must have changed in the beta...

Anyhow, I decided to do a new build under the beta and see what results that would produce. I have all the normal deps installed, and used the same build script that I have used in the past. The build fails - final errors are as below:

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x264.c:1127: error: ‘struct <anonymous>’ has no member named ‘i_direct_8x8_inference’ make[5]: *** [libx264_plugin_la-x264.lo] Error 1 make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/fang/build/vlc/0.9.8a/src/vlc-0.9.8a/modules/codec' make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/fang/build/vlc/0.9.8a/src/vlc-0.9.8a/modules/codec' make[3]: *** [all] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/fang/build/vlc/0.9.8a/src/vlc-0.9.8a/modules/codec' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/fang/build/vlc/0.9.8a/src/vlc-0.9.8a/modules' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/fang/build/vlc/0.9.8a/src/vlc-0.9.8a' make: *** [all] Error 2

The configure options I use are as below:

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./configure --prefix=/usr \ --enable-optimize-memory \ --enable-release \ --disable-lua \ --enable-v4l \ --enable-cddax \ --enable-vcdx \ --disable-swscale \ --enable-faad \ --enable-real \ --enable-realrtsp \ --enable-flac \ --enable-theora \ --enable-svg \ --enable-directfb \ --enable-esd \ --disable-pulse \ --enable-galaktos \ --enable-qt4 \

I'm at a loss as to what has changed to cause the error. Can anyone give me a pointer?

Thanks.

paul.

[xtophe]

You're trying to build vlc against a libx264 which is too recent.
So either use an older x264 or pick the patch which is in git for modules/codec/x264.c (both in the master and 0.9-bugfix branches)

[tooth20]

You're trying to build vlc against a libx264 which is too recent.
So either use an older x264 or pick the patch which is in git for modules/codec/x264.c (both in the master and 0.9-bugfix branches)

Ah! Many thanks. I'll do a bit of digging. I notice that one of the other Slackware-based builds provides a complete tree for deps when building VLC. Maybe I'll adopt that option.

Either that or explore the git tree abit

paul.