[FFmpeg-devel] Error during configure process

[Michel Bardiaux]

Sebastian Gumpp wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> today I tried to install FFmpeg on my SUSE Linux 9.3 Webserver.
> I configured with "./configure --enable-gpl --enable-libmp3lame --enable-shared --prefix=/usr" with success.
> 
> But entering "make" produces this error:
> ...
> make -C libavformat all
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/ffmpeg/libavformat'
> gcc -I"/usr/local/src/ffmpeg"/libavcodec  -DHAVE_AV_CONFIG_H -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_ISOC9X_SOURCE -I"/usr/local/src/ffmpeg" -I"/usr/local/src/ffmpeg" -I"/usr/local/src/ffmpeg"/libavutil -fomit-frame-pointer -g -Wall -Wno-switch -Wdisabled-optimization -Wpointer-arith -Wredundant-decls -O3  -c -o v4l2.o v4l2.c
> In file included from avformat.h:32,
>                  from v4l2.c:29:
> /usr/local/src/ffmpeg/libavcodec/avcodec.h:2500: warning: `ImgReSampleContext' is deprecated (declared at /usr/local/src/ffmpeg/libavcodec/avcodec.h:2479)
> /usr/local/src/ffmpeg/libavcodec/avcodec.h:2506: warning: `ImgReSampleContext' is deprecated (declared at /usr/local/src/ffmpeg/libavcodec/avcodec.h:2479)
> In file included from v4l2.c:29:
> avformat.h:291: warning: `AVFrac' is deprecated (declared at avformat.h:117)
> In file included from v4l2.c:36:
> /usr/include/linux/videodev2.h:436: error: syntax error before '*' token
> /usr/include/linux/videodev2.h:438: error: syntax error before '*' token
> /usr/include/linux/videodev2.h:439: error: syntax error before '}' token
> /usr/include/linux/videodev2.h:810: error: field `win' has incomplete type
> make[1]: *** [v4l2.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/ffmpeg/libavformat'
> make: *** [lib] Error 2
> 
> My fault or a bug?
> 

ISTR you could try adding

#include <linux/compiler.h>

before

#include <linux/videodev2.h>

in v4l2.c. If that works, submit a patch.

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