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Hi All,

Please help me after trying to get a compile for 1.1.11/13 for three days on a deb amd86 squeeze.

I have lua compiled @
lua: /usr/local/bin/lua /usr/local/lib/lua

so I added via cmd
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/lua,/usr/local/bin/lua
then added to ./configure
--with-lua-path=/usr/local/lib/lua

it repotrs uknown --with-lua-path, does the rest of ./configure
I run make and it then says it cant find it????

HAVE MERCY .... HELP ME PLEASE
Art

Why not using lua from squeeze?

It might be worth checking you have the lua dev files installed - I seem to remember that when I compiled lua, it did not install the headers, pc file, etc by default...

Thx for the the thoughts,

1. I did try with the defualt lua, howevere that failed saying not high enough version,
2. So then after reading some of the posts here tried to do an apt-get on lua & lua dev (tried a lot of combinations of liblua-dev but non were found). So I DL source from lua but found no dev files.

Can you explain how the reference to include source build files works? Like I said I have tried endless ways of using the --with-xxx-path= and all seem to fail. ie: I tried to include the ffmpeg compilled (xuggler) with --enable-ffmpeg and the ./configure returnes unknown option. tried --enable-ffmpeg=/home/....., --enable-ffmpeg-with=/home/..... , --enable-ffmpeg=/home/..... --with-ffmpeg-path=/home/....


What am I missing?

thx
Art

IS there anybody who can explain how to include a source directory

Not an answer to your question I know, but why not compile and install lua separately and then compile vlc against it?

This worked fine for me with the latest stable vlc.

thx Juanito,

What ver of lua did you use?
I can find no liblua-dev packagae - can you advise where I may find one if that is the issue

my build order

lua
1. install lua from source
a. http://www.lua.org/ftp/#source
b. tar xvzf lua-5.2.0.tar.gz
c. cd lua-5.2.0
i. make linux
ii. make install
iii. checkinstall
d. confirm >> # lua
Lua 5.2.0 Copyright (C) 1994-2011 Lua.org, PUC-Rio

vlc 1.1.11
vlc-1.1.11.tar.bz2
./configure --enable-lua

vlc-config
lua)
cflags="${cflags} "
libs="${libs} -llua -ldl -lm"

make
ends in error
Making all in lua
make[5]: Entering directory `/home/x264/vlc-1.1.11/modules/misc/lua'
make all-am
make[6]: Entering directory `/home/x264/vlc-1.1.11/modules/misc/lua'
CC liblua_plugin_la-extension.lo
extension.c: In function 'GetMenuEntries':
extension.c:685: error: implicit declaration of function 'lua_objlen'
extension.c: In function 'GetLuaState':
extension.c:752: error: implicit declaration of function 'luaL_register'
make[6]: *** [liblua_plugin_la-extension.lo] Error 1
make[6]: Leaving directory `/home/x264/vlc-1.1.11/modules/misc/lua'
make[5]: *** [all] Error 2
make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/x264/vlc-1.1.11/modules/misc/lua'
make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/x264/vlc-1.1.11/modules/misc'
make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/x264/vlc-1.1.11/modules/misc'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/x264/vlc-1.1.11/modules'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/x264/vlc-1.1.11'
make: *** [all] Error 2

I used lua-5.1.4 - from my notes, it looks as though shared libs are not made by default and you need to edit the Makefile as per the patch below.

This might not be the case with lua-5.2, but here's the patch anyway
and add -fPIC to CFLAGS.

This probably also means the headers/pkgconfig file are not installed by default and you would need to copy the following from the compiled source to your file system:

excellent I shall give it a try with your suggestions.

While I'm at it I would like to tweak the ./configure, what are the suggestions for --enable & --diable for a server with no gui

thx for your help and time
Art

hit a minor snag with the patch, I have never done this before so tried I had a few malformed errors on the original copied code so indented to rej file any thoughts?

thx
Art

The changes are relatively small so maybe it would be easiest to make them manually with a text editor.

Otherwise something like "patch -Np1 -i patchfilename"?

looks like lua 5.2 wont fly so back to prev versions,
thx for your help on this, much appreciated

It now leaves me with anther small problem on telnet, but i'll start another thread on that....

thx
Art