Compiling MPlayer on Ubuntu Hoary

After discovering the Ubuntu MPlayer package is broken for non-P4 systems, I decided to compile from source. I followed MacEwan’s instructions, but I was getting a strange compile error…

 /usr/lib/libGL.a(glxcmds.o)(.text+0x2eea): In function
 `glXGetMscRateOML':
 : undefined reference to `XF86VidModeQueryVersion'
 /usr/lib/libGL.a(glxcmds.o)(.text+0x2f1a): In function
 `glXGetMscRateOML':
 : undefined reference to `XF86VidModeGetModeLine'
 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
 make: *** [mplayer] Error 1

Turns out there’s a package missing:

 $ sudo apt-get install libxxf86vm-dev

And everything compiles cleanly now!

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Published:: 4.8.05 / 1pm

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Robert Jacobsen 4.8.05 / 1pm

Thanks alot! I just got over the same error, and did not know which package I was missing. I owe you one.
billybofh 4.8.05 / 1pm

Thanks for this – I was just recompiling and hit this error. Small world etc etc
empire 4.8.05 / 1pm

If you are still having problems make’ing after installing libxxf86vm-dev, do a ./configure again. That fixed it for me.
are you people morons 4.8.05 / 1pm

post your fin command lines if you’re going to talk about compiling files or shut the F up!
Anyi Zhu 4.8.05 / 1pm

Me too, and it took me half an hour to figure out why! By the way, do you have any idea why it takes so long to compile Mplayer, that’s even longer than compiling kernels!!!!
faithless 4.8.05 / 1pm

I installed libxxf86vm-dev but I’m still getting the same error when I try to compile mplayer.
Cristian 4.8.05 / 1pm

same issue,I installed the “tricky” dependency,but Im still getting the same error
trustnon 4.8.05 / 1pm

yep, thats it working now - after 3 compiles, first time without this, second time without the enable gui switch, just a note, remember to use this.