[MPlayer-users] Difficulties compiling mplayer with JACK support

[Michael T D Nelson]

Hi all,

I have searched the archives for this, and have found little of help, so 
I have just joined this list in the hope that someone will be able to 
help me.

I'm trying to compile mplayer from CVS - the critical feature for me 
being audio output to JACK. I'm running Fedora Core 3, and I have both 
ALSA and JACK working very well at the moment.

If I do this:
# jackd -V

I get this response:
jackd version 0.99.36 tmpdir /var/lib/jack/tmp protocol 14

I have successfully checked out mplayer from cvs earlier today.

I try this:
# ./configure --with-codecsdir=/usr/local/lib/codecs --enable-gui 
--enable-largefiles

I find this amongst the output:
Checking for JACK ... no

So, I check configure.log, and find this:
============ Checking for JACK ============

#include <jack/jack.h>
int main(void) { jack_client_new("test"); return 0; }

cc     -o /tmp/mplayer-conf-16838-30772.o 
/tmp/mplayer-conf-15722-30772.c -ljack
/tmp/mplayer-conf-15722-30772.c:1:23: jack/jack.h: No such file or directory

ldd /tmp/mplayer-conf-16838-30772.o
ldd: /tmp/mplayer-conf-16838-30772.o: No such file or directory


#include <jack/jack.h>
int main(void) { jack_client_new("test"); return 0; }

cc     -o /tmp/mplayer-conf-16838-30772.o /tmp/mplayer-conf-15722-30772.c
/tmp/mplayer-conf-15722-30772.c:1:23: jack/jack.h: No such file or directory

ldd /tmp/mplayer-conf-16838-30772.o
ldd: /tmp/mplayer-conf-16838-30772.o: No such file or directory

Result is: no
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Can anyone suggest what I might do next?

I see that I am advised to "Use these options if autodetection fails", 
using:
# ./configure --help

But which should I use, and what should I tell it?


Thanks,
Michael Nelson