[Gnash-dev] Had a little difficulty compiling gnash 0.8.7 on Fedora 12 : Possible documentation error

[Tim Long]

Hi,

Compiling Gnash from source code on a Fedora x86-64 I had a little difficulty.

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> ./configure --with-plugins-install=system -enable-gui=gtk
> make CFLAGS='-O2 -march=native' CXXFLAGS='-O2 -march=native

.....

libtool: compile:  g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../libbase -pthread
-I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include
-I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include
-I../libmedia/gst -pthread -I/usr/include/gstreamer-0.10
-I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include
-I/usr/include/libxml2 -O2 -march=native -MT
libgnashmedia_la-GstUtil.lo -MD -MP -MF
.deps/libgnashmedia_la-GstUtil.Tpo -c gst/GstUtil.cpp  -fPIC -DPIC -o
.libs/libgnashmedia_la-GstUtil.o
gst/GstUtil.cpp:33:33: error: gst/pbutils/pbutils.h: No such file or directory
gst/GstUtil.cpp:34:41: error: gst/pbutils/missing-plugins.h: No such
file or directory
gst/GstUtil.cpp:35:41: error: gst/pbutils/install-plugins.h: No such
file or directory
gst/GstUtil.cpp: In static member function ‘static bool
gnash::media::gst::GstUtil::check_missing_plugins(GstCaps*)’:
gst/GstUtil.cpp:111: error: ‘gst_pb_utils_init’ was not declared in this scope
gst/GstUtil.cpp:114: error: ‘gst_install_plugins_supported’ was not
declared in this scope
gst/GstUtil.cpp:119: error: ‘gst_missing_decoder_installer_detail_new’
was not declared in this scope
gst/GstUtil.cpp:128: error: ‘GstInstallPluginsReturn’ was not declared
in this scope
gst/GstUtil.cpp:128: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘ret’
gst/GstUtil.cpp:132: error: ‘ret’ was not declared in this scope
gst/GstUtil.cpp:132: error: ‘GST_INSTALL_PLUGINS_SUCCESS’ was not
declared in this scope
make[2]: *** [libgnashmedia_la-GstUtil.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/timl/Downloads/gnash-0.8.7/libmedia'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/timl/Downloads/gnash-0.8.7'
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Doing some digging around I found out that under Fedora 12
gst/pbutils/pbutils.h is part of the package
'gstreamer-plugins-base-devel' so I had to have 'gstreamer-devel' and
'gstreamer-plugins-base-devel' to compile successfully.

This was not mentioned to the (excellent!) gnash reference manual. You
might need to update the manual.

Regards,

Tim Long.