[MPlayer-users] problem compiling MPlayer

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 08:14:15PM +0200, Matthias Raus wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi there,
> 
> I use MPlayer-0.90pre3 which I once could compile without errors. 
> However, right now every time I try to make MPlayer I receive the 
> following message:
> 
> /usr/lib/libSDL.a(SDL_alsa_audio.lo): In function `PCM_OpenAudio':
> SDL_alsa_audio.lo(.text+0x7b6): undefined reference to 
> `snd_pcm_plugin_params'
...

Sounds like your SDL is broken. Compile mplayer --without-sdl or get a
working build of SDL. It probably has something to do with SDL being a
static lib rather than shared.

Rich