[vorbis] several (different and seperate) compiling problems

Jack Moffitt
Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:09:40 -0000

> first problem:
> Under Windows ME, using VC++6 (sp4), VC does not recognize the project
> files in the beta3 source tarball as being valid project files. it
complains
> that they were not generated by VC++6, and would I like to create a wrapper
> for these makefiles? It doesn't work. I checked them out manually, and
> they appear fine...I wonder if its not because of service pack 4? i have
> no clue at all...

I built everything for beta3 with VC++6sp4 on Win98SE.  Dunno why they
were bad but maybe it's an issue of line separators.

> second problem:
> installing and compiling beta3 ogg and vorbis source RPMS:
> ogg goes ok...only after its compiled, and I've generated an RPM, it
> doesn't install the header files in /usr/include/ogg...it doesn't,
in fact
> install them anywhere. minor problem, easily corrected by hand for now.
> but the real hum-dinger is when i try to configure vorbis, from
> the source RPM's or from the tarball...it complains that ogg has not
> been installed! error: -logg is an invalid library (on test compiles).
> however, /usr/lib/libogg.so.0 (or whatever the shared library is called,
> can't remember off the top of my head) is very much there...is it
expecting
> libogg.a? argh! vorbis-tools give the same error.

I doubt I would have missed the ogg includes, but I'll check.  As for
not finding libogg, did you run ldconfig?

jack.