Hello there

i'm trying to compile VLC 0.97 from source, on slackware 12.1
however .
my problem is

./configure in vlc
show QT4 not found
even though my QT 4 is already install in /usr/local/Trolltech


this is my Environment variable

$PATH
/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.4.3/bin:/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.4.3/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/java/bin:/usr/lib/java/jre/bin:/usr/lib/qt/bin

$QTDIR
/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.4.3/

i'm not sure is there any other enviroment variable that needed to be set?
(i've rebuild Qt4 with -shared configure flag and still has no effect)

Any help is appreciate

You will probably need this line in /etc/ld.so.conf :
/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.4.3/lib

and afterwards run # ldconfig

( The official Slackbuild makes qt4 in /usr/lib/qt4 )

And you might need this too : a link from
/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.4.3/bin/qmake
to /usr/local/bin/qmake-qt4 ( or to /usr/bin ?? )

Slacware packages are available e.g. vlc-0.9.8-i686
http://repository.slacky.eu/slackwar...dia/vlc/0.9.8/
....

i've followed ur solution , but the problem still persist

(now i've change vlc to 0.9.8a)

This is my ld.so.conf

/usr/local/lib
/usr/i486-slackware-linux/lib
/usr/lib/qt4/lib
/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.4.3/lib

qmake-qt4 link both /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin

try to check the permissions for that directory with the user you are logged into when trying to configure.. may be it isnt able to access that folder and then saying unavailable...

is it necessary ???
i've configure with root account

linking
/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.4.3/
to
/usr/lib/qt4
isnt work either

No need to link the lib anywhere ??
But the library path is important,
hence ld.so.conf

The location /usr/lib/qt4/lib needs
a text in "ld.so.conf" too.
....

Hi,

I had same problems few minutes ago.

use PKG_CONFIG_PATH before starting compile vlc.

Hope this help

Bye

PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/qt4/lib/pkgconfig

now the error come up before qt4 , its AVCODEC not found :P

"AVCODEC not found" > > avcodec > libavcodec
is part of ffmpeg.

A package for Slackware 12.1 is here
http://slackware.com/~alien/slackbui...mpeg/pkg/12.1/
....

"before" PKG_CONFIG_PATH is exported

vlc configure detected AVCODEC "successfully"

What you did, was confirming to have only 1 path for pkgconfig.
This is wrong : 'export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/qt4/lib/pkgconfig'
And this works :
'export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/qt4/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig/'

And add /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig etc. etc. if they exist,
separated with colons ( : )

To check, what you have in the path, please do 'echo $PKG_CONFIG_PATH'
....

A much better solution is generally to use the Slackbuild scripts,
when they are available. I used it for the Qt-4.4.3, and everything
was put in the right places, the paths were added to pkgconfig and
/etc/ld.so.conf , all in one process.
Please look for "Download SlackBuild" here
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12.1/libraries/qt4/
....

do you have qt4 devel or just qt if so get devel

i use qt4.4.3 from trolltech and compile manually

there's just only one in QT for application developement

so i'm not sure if there are other "dev" package

Thanks for ur comment , but i prefer building my own app manually
and playing around , so then i can have some new knowledge