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I need to build FFmpeg on RHEL4 ... yes, 4!
The version of make on RHEL4 is 3.80, and the Makefile that ./configure generates when configuring FFmpeg does not seem to be compatible. When I make it throws a parse error every time.
This happens on pretty much every software pkg I try and build.
My applications group (at work) will not upgrade this machine, so please skip the suggestions to upgrade to RHEL5 or 6.
What are my options for installing FFmpeg?
Your question specified that doing a proper upgrade (i.e., upgrading the system's GNU Make package) is out of the question. However, since you have privileges to the system C compiler, I recommend building GNU Make 3.82 (latest and greatest) and installing it in your home directory for personal use.
Software is at: http://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/make/
Unpack it, configure, build, and install:
./configure --prefix=$HOME
make
make install
Note that the last step is not prefixed by 'sudo'. This will install 'make' as ~/bin/make. After configuring FFmpeg, call '~/bin/make` and everything should build fine.
I just tested this myself.
Related
I have Apple's command line tools version 9.1 installed and am working through an LLVM tutorial. I need to use some libraries like llvm/ADT and llvm/IR but get an error when I run the code.
main.cpp:1:10: fatal error: 'llvm/ADT/APFloat.h' file not found
#include "llvm/ADT/APFloat.h"
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
I also don't seem to have tools such as the assembler. Are these things not usable with Apple's version? And can I install LLVM without conflicting with Apple's version?
Apple's fork misses most of the library,headers and command-line tools in the llvm trunk.
I suggest you compile a new llvm copy from trunk.
Conflicting depends on how you configure everything. You can:
Install your new copy to global location, where your $PATH configuration is responsible for choosing which version to use.
Install as a separate Xcode Toolchain.
Here is a build script I've been using:
cmake -G "Ninja" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DLLVM_APPEND_VC_REV=on -DLLVM_ENABLE_EH=on -DLLVM_ENABLE_RTTI=on -DLLVM_CREATE_XCODE_TOOLCHAIN=on -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/Library/Developer/ ../LLVM
Running ninja install will install to global location, otherwise run ninja install-xcode-toolchain to install as a separate toolchain
In your case I suggest installing to global location to avoid the trouble of messing with CFLAGS/LDFLAGS/Header Search Path. Then remove the installation manually after you are done with the tutorial
EDIT: You might also want to check out the official build guide https://llvm.org/docs/CMake.html
For your use case, in-tree building is also a feasible option(Providing you are familiar with write cmake configs)
Actually, there is no need to build the LLVM yourself. You can get prebuilt version for your platform here: http://releases.llvm.org
In your case it would be something like this:
cd /opt
wget http://releases.llvm.org/5.0.0/clang+llvm-5.0.0-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz
tar xvf clang+llvm-5.0.0-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz
mv clang+llvm-5.0.0-x86_64-apple-darwin llvm-5.0.0
After that you will have everything under /opt/llvm-5.0.0, e.g.:
/opt/llvm-5.0.0/bin/clang
/opt/llvm-5.0.0/bin/llvm-config
/opt/llvm-5.0.0/lib/libc++.a
etc.
P.S. I use /opt just as an example, feel free to pick any other directory that fits you best.
I am using msys2 Mingw (gcc 4.8.2 for i686 32-bit) for building Ghostscript 9.10. After running make, gs.exe was created successfully. Followed by that I ran "make so" for creating libgs library. Libgs.so, Libgs.so.9.10 were created which are of the same file size. But I found both of them to be PE executables. After renaming extension to .exe, they produced the same output as done by gs.exe. What I require is libgs.dll, libgs.a to be created, but instead "make so" creates libgs.so which is in fact a PE executable. I also tried using patch found on site:https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/blob/master/mingw-w64-ghostscript/mingw-build.patch, but still the output remains the same. Has anyone been successful in this? Kindly help me.
I presume if you follow the steps taken in the build script connected to the patch you linked, everything will work out fine. I think most of it is just to make it use the "system"'s 3rd party libraries instead of those in the GS source. I'd guess running the configure command would do.
Alternatively, you could just download the MSYS2 base system from here, and do a pacman -Syu mingw-w64-i686-ghostscript. It should download and install the binary package without you having to build it yourself.
If you really want to build it yourself, download the PKGBUILD and patch, and run makepkg from the aforementioned MSYS2 shell and have that build it for you.
Have just completed testing of gs 9.15 built executables using the a patch
MINGW-packages-master.zip from https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages
Without implementing the zlib patch and PKGBUILD and using a MINGW 4.7.3 32/64
without by ghostscript used libs installed.
They did not work as is while using msys1 pathe'd up ahead of Windoze.
I simply edited the the MINGW Build and 32/64 bit type in makefile in
and set them to =1 there. and as i built without GTK defined in ./configure
SOC_LOADER_PLAIN manually to gs.c
Check the makefile after ./configure ahead of make or make so though , , .
All went well except for the COMPILE_INITS
mkromfs build that failed so I had to set that to =0 and build without that
feature. For me personally preferred as one can patch the gs fonts and libs
much easier.
The builds run as charm with full cpu optimisers implemented
only disabling gcse and guess-branch-probability, easily outperforming
the binaries provided by http://www.ghostscript.com/ by all means.
HPC !
I am trying to build xmlsec on Windows... I am not an experienced C/C++ developer and not really familiar with the build process if something along the lines of "make ... make install" doesn't do the trick.
xmlsec comes with a Win32 subdirectory, a nice ECMAScript configure.js that takes an optional bunch of parameters and a readme which explains that after running the configure, "nmake ... nmake install" should do the trick. (Obviously it isn't quite that easy or I wouldn't be posting here!)
xmlsec also depends on a number of other libraries (see here for a graphic). I have downloaded the sources for those libraries.
My problem is that I don't know how to arrange those sources, or what to tell the configure.js script, in order to get a build to work.
For instance, the nmake process complains that it can't find "iconv.h" (iconv is one of the required libraries), which is not surprising because there isn't one. Instead there is an "iconv.h.in" and an "iconv.h.build.in"... which I don't know what to do with to produce the required 'iconv.h".
(I am using MS Visual Studio 2010 at the command prompt (which I think is the recommended approach.)
Does anybody out there know how to do this? Any help at all would be very much appreciated.
TIA
Mike Peat
You don't need to build xmlsec, you can directly download the wheel file from this link
https://github.com/mehcode/python-xmlsec/releases
It has all the dependencies installed with it.
have you tried the Msys with Mingw32 compiler? In Msys, you can do make and make install trick. I have successful with Msys in compile xmlsec. If you want to use Msys and have difficulties, I can help.
Anyway, in general, there must be a iconv.h file in the pre-compile folder provided by Zlatkovic (i.e C:\iconv\include\iconv.h). You may want to download again the folder. After figure out where all the dependencies are, put the path in environment path. For your information, I once tried with the configure.js but not successful. Hope that you are luckier than me :D
Hi Kristine (#Kristine T) - (and thanks for getting back to me!)
I had not been doing "make clean", but have now done so ("make clean", followed by "make" - no change in the result though).
The problem I get with the "make" is that it throws an error on compiling "dl.c" saying that "PACKAGE" is undefined (line 295).
I have also had problems using the compiled version of libxml2 - "configure" always says it can't find it (it is there, but...), so I have been using the --with-libxml-src=... parameter to configure, giving it the full source of libxml2 to work with, getting configure to at least finish OK.
I don't have the same problems with openssl or libxslt where I can either tell configure about the compiled version (using --with-XXX={path-to-dir}, or just omit ={path} bit, in which case it seems to find MinGW's own versions, but that doesn't work with libxml2.
Mike
I spent the whole day setting up GCC as per
http://cygwin.wikia.com/wiki/How_to_install_GCC_4.3.0
On the gcc make step, it told me it needed a c++ compiler to continue for whatever reason,
So I updated Cygwin in the usual fashion and got gcc-c++.
After that, cgywin did me the courtesy of deleting the 3 prereq libraries that I had installed previously,
So I went about remaking them. GMP worked fine, and then I got to MPFR. For whatever reason MPFR is throwing this error:
configure: error: libgmp not found or uses a different ABI.
The resources mention this error here.
I’m pretty sure its finding GMP alright as cygcheck shows it up no problem, and the config even mentions it finds it.
When I try:
./configure --with-gmp-build=/gmp/,
it throws:
error: header files gmp-impl.h and longlong.h not found
So far I have not been able to get MPFR working, despite googling and trying for hours.
MPC also fails to find GMP in the usual manner.
I've also tried just handing the libraries to GCC in a subdirectory and letting it compile them.
When I try that, it gets to the make step, then throws a stage1-bubble error and fails. No description of the error or anything.
I have no idea what else to try.
After compiling and installing gmp, I had the same problem building mpfr until I set correctly the library search path:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
export LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
export CPATH=/usr/local/include
as it is explained in the http://cygwin.wikia.com/wiki/How_to_install_GCC_4.3.0
Instead of this:
./configure --with-gmp-build=/gmp/
USE THIS:
./configure --with-gmp-build=/gmp
It doesn't like having the "/" at the end.
I know this post is a bit dated, but I was looking for an answer or results to a similar situation but with much more current versions of the same libraries. While reading this post as for some suggestions as well as other online material I was able to piece everything together. So for anyone who may be working with the newest releases here it goes:
First you will probably want to configure, make and install GMP first for both C and C++ as static libs; also make note of the architecture x86 or x64. Once you run make, make check, make install; and you are confidant that you have no errors, then when you go to configure MPFR you will want to run it as such:
./configure --with-gmp-build=/path/to/gmp --enable-static --disable-shared
and if the paths are set properly this should give you the needed generated make file.
I'm brand new to Unix-Posix environments and commands and new to Cygwin. I've mostly used Windows platforms and very few Macs or Apples. Matter of fact I've only been working at this for a little less than a week as I'm trying to do the same thing. So now I'm venturing into a whole new world of Unix... but it's sort of simulated through Cygwin as I'm still running windows.
I'm trying to build GMP, MPIR, MPFR & MPFRC++ all from the latest original distributions and eventually will try to integrate them into Visual Studio 2017.
I had actually found this post because I was able to build MPIR through visual studio with the help of python and vyasm, but as for GMP I needed Cygwin with GCC. It took me a little while to figure out how to get GMP to build properly but once I did and ran the tests I was able to have all pass with 0 failures. I then started to work with MPFR the same as you.
My similar issue was after I ran ./configure as default, it was giving me the message that the libgmp wasn't found. Also if I tried to call make, it would do nothing as the make file didn't exist. This led me back to doing google searches... While searching for tips, suggestions etc. I came across this Q/A. While I was reading this Q/A, the install files, some other FAQ and even another website, I was kind of able to piece everything together and what I have found that works is what I suggested above.
Not only do you need to set the flag --with-gmp-build but you also need to set the appropriate library types that gmp was built as and you need to make sure that the architecture types match too. They need to have the same matching ABIs.
Ah, just as I was about to finish up typing this answer, make check just finished running through Cygwin and I have a result of:
Testsuite summary for MPFR 4.0.1
============================================================================
# TOTAL: 180
# PASS: 180
# SKIP: 0
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL: 0
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
============================================================================
I hope this helps you out. The only thing is for myself; I'll have to go back and probably run all of this again from the beginning including GMP only because I believe I only did GCC and not G++ and my next step is to try and build MPFRC++.
Then I might try to do some related libraries from here afterwards. My first phase is to try to build them all through Cygwin and GCC/G++. The next step will be to try and port them over to Visual Studio 2017.
You might want to use --with-gmp-lib=/path/to/gmp/lib/dir
I am using Ubuntu 9.10
For a particular piece of code I require GCC 3.2 but I have a higher version. Is it possible to install multiple versions and use whichever one I want to ?
Have you searched the Ubuntu package archive for gcc ?
If gcc 3.3 is ok, you could download the gcc-3.3 and related .deb packages for dapper and I suspect it will install and happily co-exist with the gcc 4.4 you get with karmic. (You'll have to be sure to invoke it as gcc-3.3.)
Otherwise you would have to:
download the relevant gcc source bundle
build it yourself with an installdir some place out of the way like /opt/gcc-3.3
make sure to set your PATH correctly when you need it.
yes, you can have multiple installations. You can invoke specific version using gcc-3.2.
you can search repository using apt-cache search gcc-3 to find a package to install using apt-get install. quick search shows only gcc-3.3 in repository, if that version does not work for you, you have to dig a bit more or install by hand. Other poster gave more details
Consider accepting previous answers to questions you have been answered, otherwise you will not get responses.
It is possible to have more than one, but they need to be named differently and installed to different folders. See tutorials for building cross-compiling GCC but do not build for different architecture. However, note that compiling GCC yourself is rather difficult, so fixing the application that you need to compile might be easier.
It is possible to install several versions of gcc on the same machine, where the default version is located here:
/usr/bin/gcc
Then your alternate versions could be located here:
/usr/local/gcc
Certainly adding packages is a simpler way to do it, but if you are interested in installing from source you can download the specific version you want from here:
https://bigsearcher.com/mirrors/gcc/releases/
Then to easily distinguish the versions you can add a suffix or prefix:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/gcc --program-suffix=-10
So in this case your alternate executable would become gcc-10. Then simply perform make and make install as usual.
Please note that if you get an error about GMP, MPFR or MPC files being missing then install them using:
./contrib/download_prerequisites
For details please see https://gcc.gnu.org/faq.html#multiple and Building GCC requires GMP 4.2+, MPFR 2.3.1+ and MPC 0.8.0+
Then you should have the new gcc program installed in /usr/local/gcc/bin instead of the default /usr/bin/gcc, so you have to add it to your PATH in your .bashrc file (this is how I did it for bash):
export PATH=$PATH/usr/local/gcc/bin
So now I can so that I have both the default gcc and the gcc-10 by doing:
$ which gcc
/usr/bin/gcc
$ which gcc-10
/usr/local/gcc/bin/gcc-10