Re: [Gap-dev-discuss] Cynthiune build failure

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

On Wednesday, April 25, 2012 20:02 CEST, Philippe Roussel <address@hidden> 
wrote:

> Le 25/04/2012 19:27, Sebastian Reitenbach a écrit :
> >
> > On Tuesday, April 24, 2012 12:12 CEST, Philippe Roussel <address@hidden> 
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I just tried building Cynthiune from GAP cvs and got this :
> >>
> >>> Making all for bundle WindowsMedia...
> >>>  Compiling file CWMFile.cpp ...
> >>> CWMFile.cpp: In function ‘void WMStreamGetInfos(void***, unsigned int*, 
> >>> long unsigned int*, unsigned int*)’:
> >>> CWMFile.cpp:130:3: erreur: ‘StreamInfo’ was not declared in this scope
> >>> CWMFile.cpp:130:3: note: suggested alternative:
> >>> /usr/include/avifile-0.7/avifile.h:14:7: note:   ‘avm::StreamInfo’
> >>> CWMFile.cpp:130:15: erreur: ‘streamInfo’ was not declared in this scope
> >>
> >> This is with avifile 0.7.48 (avifile-config --version) and gcc 4.6.1.
> >
> > I don't have avifile in the OpenBSD ports tree. And on the page listed in 
> > the README,
> > there is only avifile 0.7.45. This doesn't build for me.
> >
> > I found a avifile 0.7.48 here:
> > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/avifile/1:0.7.48~20090503.ds-9.1
> >
> > but this doesn't have a ready to be run configure script. I tried a bit 
> > with autoconf and automake
> > but gave up in the end.
> >
> > Do you maybe know whether it has a new homepage?
> > Where I can download one with a working configure script?
>
> I tried with 'apt-get source' and the archive it gives me won't build,
> even if it's supposed to be the base of the ubuntu package....
>
> > Actually, this avifile seems to use old ffmpeg, and other libraries. Since 
> > the tarball of .48 is from 2009,
> > I guess the version will probably full of security related bugs. Even if I 
> > get it to run, I may not want to
> > link against it ;) Therefore this avifile is one of the lowest priorities 
> > for me right now.
> > Maybe its more clever/better/whatever to directly link against ffmpeg? 
> > Don't know.
>
> You're probably right, going for ffmpeg seems like the best move as it's
> actively maintained and supporting a lot of codecs. But that probably
> means more work that I'm able to do now and I don't even know if I could
> do it, I know nothing about those librairies.
>
> > Further, it seems to be c++, where I'm a total noob :(
>
> Welcome to the club :o)
>
> > I still did not had time to look into all the patches you sent me some time 
> > ago, from the Debian
> > package of Cynthiune. IIRC, there was  a patch also with regard to avifile.
> > Maybe can you check to get that patch applied and whether Cynthiune then 
> > builds the Bundle for you?
>
> Yeah, sorry I didn't try that first. With the attached WindowMedia patch
> the bundle builds. It then fails in the MusePack bundle but is fixed

> with the Musepack-new-API patch.

Which version of libmpcdec do you have installed. The Musepack Bundle works for 
me.
I guess we have something different here. I have: libmpcdec-1.2.6 installed.

So, I'll add the WindowsMedia patch, with the Musepack patch, I'll probably 
need to get
it to work with some #ifdefs to support both versions.

>
> And now compilation stops in the OSS bundle with :
>
> > In file included from OSSPreference.m:35:0:
> > OSS.h:33:1: attention : definition of protocol ‘CynthiuneBundle’ not found 
> > [enabled by default]
> > OSS.h:33:1: attention : definition of protocol ‘Output’ not found [enabled 
> > by default]
> >  Linking bundle OSS ...
> > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lossaudio
>
> This one should probably be disabled by default.

I added it for me to testing on OpenBSD, there I need to link against it, when 
I want to use OSS.
I'll make that optional.

thanks,
Sebastian

>
> Thanks,
> Philippe