installing xine

[Leper Khan]

i think there are other stuff i have to update in order for it to work, but i am trying to install xine and this is what happens in console:

[root@localhost xine-lib-1-rc6a]# ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.

can someone please help me?

[lakerdonald]

you need a C compiler to compile/install any program from source. you need to download/ install gcc which is one the most common and best supported C compilers out there.
-lakerdonald

[Leper Khan]

ok, i installed gcc and i get the same error. i am trying to install xine by uncompressing it, 'cd' to its location, and ./configure. am i doing something wrong?

[andrewdodd13]

you'll need to either use an RPM or use another system, mount your root disk , move to the GCC folder and type

./configure --prefix=/<mount point>

[Leper Khan]

sorry, i am a linux nub and i dont understand that. i tried to use rpms but i have missing dependencies, and that was making me angry.

[andrewdodd13]

well you'll need to satisfy the dependencies, because without GCC you basically have a PC that can do what it has already, but nothing else.

[Leper Khan]

ok, i got gcc installed (thank god!) but now i am having problems installing xine, this is what happens when i try to configure it:

[root@localhost xine-lib-1-rc6a]# ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for strerror in -lcposix... no
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... (cached) none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for gawk... (cached) gawk
checking for inline... inline
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking dlfcn.h usability... yes
checking dlfcn.h presence... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking for g++... no
checking for c++... no
checking for gpp... no
checking for aCC... no
checking for CC... no
checking for cxx... no
checking for cc++... no
checking for cl... no
checking for FCC... no
checking for KCC... no
checking for RCC... no
checking for xlC_r... no
checking for xlC... no
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... no
checking whether g++ accepts -g... no
checking dependency style of g++... none
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp
configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
See `config.log' for more details.

[andrewdodd13]

aswell as GCC-Core you'll also need
GCC-C++ and G++ by the looks of things... these can be downloaded in RPM format aswell.

[Leper Khan]

ok, i have gcc installed an all that such, so i su to root and cd to the xine directory and type ./configure and a does a bunch of stuff, and at the end it says:

checking for gzsetparams in -lz... no
configure: error: zlib needed

so i try to isntall zlib and it says i already have it.... wtf?

[*M1DN1GH7*]

I had the same problem: zlib was needed while the RPM of zlib was ready installed. So I tried to download unzip and compile (./configure, make, make install) the tar.gz version of zlib library. The problem disappear! I'm sure that when some library already installed are requested you have to install the tar.gz version of it.
(sorry 4 my english)

Good job.[/quote]