[MPlayer-users] compiling problems

[Corey Hickey]

Schaman Christoph wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hello everyone,
> 
> as I am new to this mailing-list, please be patient.
> 
> I am currently trying to install MPlayer-0.92 with options --enable-png on a 
> SuSE Linux 8.2 (CPU Intel III ~800Mhz, further info available if needed), but 
> it won´t work: make returns the following error(s):
> 
> --snip--
> make[1]: *** [vd_mpng.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Christoph/MPlayer-0.92/libmpcodecs´
> make: *** [libmpcodecs/libmpcodecs.a] Fehler2
> --snap--
> 
> Before that, it complains about vd_mpng.c:xxx:errors, where xxx is an integer 
> between 53 and 130. There is also a message that there is "No such file or 
> directory" as png.h, and a parse error (which is, as I suppose, the errors 
> with integers).

I think this indicates that you don't have the png development package
installed. Whenever you're compiling software, you need development
packages for anything the program links to.

The exact name of the package you want probably varies by distribution,
but on Debian it's libpng12-dev.

-Corey