[vox-tech] Re: compiling mplayer with GUI support

Ken Bloom vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Wed, 14 May 2003 20:09:17 -0700


On 2003.05.14 19:44, Charles McLaughlin wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 17:47, Charles McLaughlin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to compile mplayer with GUI support, so I tried
> > ./configure --enable-gui
> >
> > But I this error:
> >
> > Error: X11 support required for GUI compilation
> >
> >
> > Am I missing some X11 libs?  Can they be installed using apt-get?
> >
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Charles
> 
> Nevermind...  I found that I needed xlibs-dev.  Now its compiling! ;-)
> 

mplayer should have a debian/ directory inside its original sources, so 
you can just use `dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot` to create a .deb of 
mplayer, and as a bonus it will check build dependancies.

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