Lenard, Thank you very much! That worked.
-Tyler On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Lenard Lindstrom <le...@telus.net> wrote: > When building ffmpeg you have to pass --enable-shared to ./configure. Do a > ./configure --help to see all the options. > > Lenard > > > Tyler Laing wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> Making fast progress here. I've got a question for later, but the more >> relevant one right now is this: >> >> The extension compiles, and it fails when linking with libavformat. >> The error message is this: >> gcc -pthread -shared -Wl,-O1,-Bsymbolic-functions >> build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.5/src/ff_movie.o -lSDL -lavformat -lavdevice >> -lavcodec -lavutil -lswscale -o build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.5/pygame/gmovie.so >> /usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/avformat.a(allformats.o): relocation of >> R_X86_64_32 against 'aac_demuxer' can not be used when making a shared >> object; recompile with -fPIC >> /usr/local/lib/libavformat.a: could not read symbols: Bad value >> collect2: ld returned with 1 exit status >> error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 >> >> >> In addition, to be able to get to the compilation stage one needs to do >> this: >> -download ffmpeg-0.5.0 >> -run ./configure in ffmpeg-0.5.0 directory >> -run make >> -run make install (will need admin privileges?) >> -cd libswscale >> -run make >> -run make install (will need admin privileges?) >> >> This will put all the correct versions of the header files in >> /usr/local/include (depending on the distribution) >> >> -Tyler >> >> -- >> Visit my blog at http://oddco.ca/zeroth/zblog >> > > -- Visit my blog at http://oddco.ca/zeroth/zblog
