skins2 interface error: No suitable dialogs

[WalterK]

Believe me pm I read evey thread I could find on those wxWidgets error, from uninstalling to reinstalling wxWidgets 2.6 and still the error came up with --enable-unicode even running ldcache after the install. I was hesitant to add --disable-skins2 after reading ipkiss's earlier post on the explanation of what skins2 was for, but I figured I had nothing to lose after verbose' compile worked.
And it worked, go figure I still don't know why and I don't think I'll go looking for why until I decide to do a fresh install of Linux on another PC, I'll just count my blessings.

[Itsme]

I have the following error in VLC:

Running : vlc -v --reset-config --reset-plugins-cache -l | grep wx

[00000029] main module warning: cannot find symbol "vlc_entry__0_8_4" in file `/usr/local/lib/vlc/access/libcddax_plugin.so' (vlc: undefined symbol: _vlc_entry__0_8_4)
[00000129] main module warning: cannot find symbol "vlc_entry__0_8_4" in file `/usr/local/lib/vlc/demux/libaac_plugin.so' (vlc: undefined symbol: _vlc_entry__0_8_4)
[00000138] main module warning: cannot find symbol "vlc_entry__0_8_4" in file `/usr/local/lib/vlc/demux/libid3_plugin.so' (vlc: undefined symbol: _vlc_entry__0_8_4)
[00000161] main module warning: cannot find symbol "vlc_entry__0_8_4" in file `/usr/local/lib/vlc/gui/libwxwindows_plugin.so' (vlc: undefined symbol: _vlc_entry__0_8_4)
[00000001] main vlc warning: cannot load module `/usr/local/lib/vlc/gui/libwxwidgets_plugin.so' (/usr/local/lib/libwx_gtk2u_core-2.6.so.0: undefined symbol: pango_x_get_context)
[00000176] main module warning: cannot find symbol "vlc_entry__0_8_4" in file `/usr/local/lib/vlc/misc/libsap_plugin.so' (vlc: undefined symbol: _vlc_entry__0_8_4)

I have in ld.so.conf :
/usr/local/lib
/usr/X11R6/lib
/usr/i486-slackware-linux/lib
/opt/kde/lib
/usr/lib/qt/lib
/usr/include
/lib
/usr/lib
/usr/local/mysql/lib
/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql
/usr/local/rrdtool-1.0.49/lib
/usr/lib/xfce4/panel-plugins
/usr/local/lib/graphviz
/usr/local/lib/vlc

What to do to get it to run properly

wxwidgets

[ipkiss]

Check (and fix) your pango installation.

[vulture]

I just had the same problem. I found this in another post, try adding

--with-wx-config=wx-config-unicode

to the config.

That seemed to fix it for me.

How do I create that wx-config-unicode? I get a message which says I don't have that config.

checking for wx-config-unicode... no
configure: error: The skins2 module depends on the wxWidgets development package. Without it you won't be able to open any dialog box from the interface, which makes the skins2 interface rather useless. Install the wxWidgets development package or alternatively you can also configure with: --disable-wxwidgets --disable-skins2.

[kaitou]

Basically, it's a bug in vlc. vlc-config says "use -D_UNICODE" for the compiles and then used the non-unicode versions of the libraries (e.g., -lwx_gtk2_core-2.6 instead of -lwx_gtk2u_core-2.6). I suspect it didn't check to see if the unicode versions were available (they weren't when I first built it).

For me, it was: reconfigure wxGTK with --enable-unicode; build and install;
rerun configure in vlc (it will create a correct vlc-config);
make clean;
make;
make install.