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Posted: **02 May 2021 14:01**

Hi!

I've been trying to compile VLC on Ubuntu 20.04 and I've managed to get ./configure to run with no issue. However, when running 'make' I get the following error message:

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make[4]: Entering directory '/home/<username>/Desktop/vlc/modules'
  CXXLD    libqt_plugin.la
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[4]: *** [Makefile:20410: libqt_plugin.la] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/<username>/Desktop/vlc/modules'
make[3]: *** [Makefile:34271: all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/<username>/Desktop/vlc/modules'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:14327: all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/<username>/Desktop/vlc/modules'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:1584: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/<username>/Desktop/vlc'
make: *** [Makefile:1471: all] Error 2

The following packages I have installed that are returned from running

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apt list --installed | grep qt

are:

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libqt5concurrent5/focal,now 5.12.8+dfsg-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5core5a/focal,now 5.12.8+dfsg-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5dbus5/focal,now 5.12.8+dfsg-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5gui5/focal,now 5.12.8+dfsg-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5network5/focal,now 5.12.8+dfsg-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5printsupport5/focal,now 5.12.8+dfsg-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5qml5/focal,now 5.12.8-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5quick5/focal,now 5.12.8-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed]
libqt5quickcontrols2-5/focal,now 5.12.8+dfsg-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed]
libqt5quickparticles5/focal,now 5.12.8-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5quickshapes5/focal,now 5.12.8-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5quicktemplates2-5/focal,now 5.12.8+dfsg-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5quicktest5/focal,now 5.12.8-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5quickwidgets5/focal,now 5.12.8-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed]
libqt5sql5/focal,now 5.12.8+dfsg-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5svg5-dev/focal,now 5.12.8-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed]
libqt5svg5/focal,now 5.12.8-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5test5/focal,now 5.12.8+dfsg-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5widgets5/focal,now 5.12.8+dfsg-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5x11extras5-dev/focal,now 5.12.8-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed]
libqt5x11extras5/focal,now 5.12.8-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5xml5/focal,now 5.12.8+dfsg-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
qt5-qmake-bin/focal,now 5.12.8+dfsg-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
qt5-qmake/focal,now 5.12.8+dfsg-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
qt5-qmltooling-plugins/focal,now 5.12.8-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
qtbase5-dev-tools/focal,now 5.12.8+dfsg-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
qtbase5-dev/focal,now 5.12.8+dfsg-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed]
qtbase5-private-dev/focal,now 5.12.8+dfsg-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed]
qtchooser/focal,now 66-2build1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
qtdeclarative5-dev-tools/focal,now 5.12.8-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
qtdeclarative5-dev/focal,now 5.12.8-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed]
qtquickcontrols2-5-dev/focal,now 5.12.8+dfsg-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed]

I was wondering if anyone could please help me find out what's wrong. Please let me know if you also need any more information!
Many thanks

Posted: **03 May 2021 17:33**

Check the actual linker error.

Posted: **06 May 2021 09:58**

Hi Rémi,

Thanks for getting back to me, running ./compile I got the following error if this helps:

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MAKE     : modules
MAKE     : .
 COMPILE : libqt_plugin_la-bookmarks.moc.lo
ERROR   : gui/qt/dialogs/bookmarks/bookmarks.moc.cpp:103: 18:  'QMetaObject::SuperData' has not been declared
     QMetaObject::SuperData::link<QVLCFrame::staticMetaObject>(),
                  ^~~~~~~~~
ERROR   : gui/qt/dialogs/bookmarks/bookmarks.moc.cpp:103: 63:  expected primary-expression before ')' token
     QMetaObject::SuperData::link<QVLCFrame::staticMetaObject>(),
                                                               ^
cc1plus: warning: unrecognized command line option '-Wno-deprecated-copy'
make: *** [Makefile:1471: all] Error 2

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