faad2 in linux

[gotaserena]

Anybody has any tips on how to do it? My configure complains that there is no xmms available (I think it means source. I can't compile xmms because I can't make it understand that I have glib installed, but that is another problem) but it goes ahead anyways. When I type "make" it exits immediately, with the error:

Makefile:602: *** missing separator. Stop.


And I swear I did not try to hack the configuration files. Any help?

[mikeX]

You probably need to install the header files (in both cases), there is no need to compile the packages.
Just go to your package manager and search for example for 'xmms dev' (dev for development). You should come across a package saying something like "development files for xmms ...". Install that and try running the configure script for faad again.

Generally when you compile something and it complains for a missing package it's just those header files (which it needs in order to compile) that are missing, not the actual package.

[gotaserena]

Thanks for the answer.

I ended up installing the packages through apt-get. It is less of hassle. Thankfully I managed to compile the mp4/aac plugin from http://fondriest.frederic.free.fr/realisations/. At least now I can listen to my m4a files in my linux box. Can't see any Id tags (can't figure a way of the computer understanding that I have id3lib installed), but that's another problem.

[gotaserena]

Welly welly welly...

These guys are certainly not easy to follow. The problem with the make above was in the last lines of the faad2/Makefile which included rules to make a rpm package out of the source. As I don't want a rpm package, I just commented the entry out, and could compile the binaries.

BUT... All is not well. Now when I try to compile the xmms-plugin, make also complains that there are no rules to compile libmp4.a. Just in case anybody wants to follow my steps, I think these sources are only supposed to work in debian. It's a pity that the precompiled plugins cut the last two seconds of the music, and hidrogenaudio doesn't allow for new sign-ups, so I can't bother people that know more than me :)