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I am trying to compile MPlayer using the --enable-gui on an HP Pavillion with an AMD 64 processor. When I do ./configure --enable-gui the configure fails with
Checking for GUI ... yes
Error: X11 support required for GUI compilation.
I do have the devel rpms installed I think. Below is the part of my log file that shows the no. What am I missing. MPlayer compiles and works fine without the gui.
David
##########################################
============ Checking for X11 headers presence ============
Result is: yes (using /usr/X11/include)
##########################################
============ Checking for X11 libs presence ============
Result is: yes (using /usr/X11R6/lib)
##########################################
cc /tmp/mplayer-conf-25663-32290.c -o /tmp/mplayer-conf-4934-32290.o -I/usr/X11/include -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXext -lX11 -lnsl
/usr/lib64/gcc-lib/x86_64-suse-linux/3.3.4/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so when searching for -lXext
/usr/lib64/gcc-lib/x86_64-suse-linux/3.3.4/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.a when searching for -lXext
/usr/lib64/gcc-lib/x86_64-suse-linux/3.3.4/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
ldd /tmp/mplayer-conf-4934-32290.o
ldd: /tmp/mplayer-conf-4934-32290.o: No such file or directory
Result is: no
##########################################
Trickykid, I am using SuSE 9.2 which uses XORG. This was installed via the rpm during the initial installation. I went back and installed every XORG X11 package that was available except for the man pages and the DOCS. I have installed mplayer without the gui from the current source and from the CVS. I have googled for two days looking for a solution, but have not found one. I installed the packman rpm for mplayer and it worked but not nearly as well as a compiled setup. No DTS support. That tarball by the way took me a while to track down. I know I must be missing something and probably something simple. Sometimes I can't see the forest for the trees.
i found that if you have a 64 bit processor then you should have the 64 bit linux version, my buddy has a notebook and had lots of problems til' he went out and purchased the box set mandrake 10 for the 64 bit and has smooth operations ever since
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