[artouk]

Hi, I'm hoping someone can help me, as I don't have alot of experience I compiling programs from source in Linux. I am trying to compile XBMC for mint 12 as I had to patch one of the source files and as far as I can see there are no precompiled binaries anywhere.

Anyway after running ./bootstrap I then run ./configure which fails with the following..

Code:

checking for sftp_tell64 in -lssh... no
Could not find suitable version of libssh
checking for hci_devid in -lbluetooth... yes
checking for main in -lyajl... no
configure: error: Could not find a required library. Please see the README for your platform.

I assume I need libssh and lyajl? but I dont know how to find them. Any help would be appreciated.

I've alread done

Code:

sudo apt-get build-dep xbmc

Which gives this output

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joe@ASGARD:~/xbmc-source/xbmc$ sudo apt-get build-dep xbmc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.

[Bram77]

What about libssh-4, libssh-dev, libssh2-1 or libssh2-1-dev ? These are the available libssh libraries in Mint 11.

[artouk]

Just installed them 3 with apt and still get the same error.

[Bram77]

There are 4 packages

[Bram77]

Are you using this repository for XBMC? https://launchpad.net/~nathan-renniewaldock

[artouk]

Yes I'm using that repo. Ok I've just installed libyajl-dev with apt and now I get a bit further but it stops with this now..

Code:

checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no
checking for ccache... none
configure: ccache not found. Falling back to default CC
configure: == DVDCSS support enabled. ==
configure: creating ./config.status
yasm not found, use --disable-yasm for a crippled build

If you think configure made a mistake, make sure you are using the latest
version from Git.  If the latest version fails, report the problem to the
[email protected] mailing list or IRC #ffmpeg on irc.freenode.net.
Include the log file "config.log" produced by configure as this will help
solving the problem.
configure: error: Submodule lib/ffmpeg failed to configure

Thanks for trying to help


EDIT:

Ok I installed Yasm and configure now completes, im just trying to 'make' now hopefully it works.

[Bram77]

sudo apt-get install yasm ccache ?

EDIT: You'll only need to install ccache of you plan on compiling regularly. It will speed up the process a bit but is not required.

[artouk]

ok now make is erroring

Code:

make[4]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so', needed by `libprojectM.so.2.00'. Stop.
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/joe/xbmc-source/xbmc/xbmc/visualizations/XBMCProjectM/libprojectM'
make[3]: *** [CMakeFiles/projectM.dir/all] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/joe/xbmc-source/xbmc/xbmc/visualizations/XBMCProjectM/libprojectM'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/joe/xbmc-source/xbmc/xbmc/visualizations/XBMCProjectM/libprojectM'
make[1]: *** [libprojectM/libprojectM.so] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/joe/xbmc-source/xbmc/xbmc/visualizations/XBMCProjectM'
make: *** [xbmc/visualizations/XBMCProjectM] Error 2
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
AR      xbmc/guilib/guilib.a

any ideas?

[Bram77]

You'll probably need to install libgl1-mesa-dev and it's dependencies. Googling the error messages (or parts of them) will give you the answers most of the time

[wsnipex]

read the README.linux file, all needed dependencies are in there.

[darkscout]

Debian/Ubuntu/Mint protip:

When ever you try to compile something and it says
"missing libgangbang"
or
"checking for -lgangbang"

Open another terminal window:
apt-cache search libgangbang.

Always install -dev because that's what stuff compiling wants.