[MPlayer-users] Issue compiling mplayer-checkout-2010-10-23 on ARMv7

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 09:50:56AM +0200, Yves Caniou wrote:
> Le Sunday 24 October 2010 11:23:36 Reimar Döffinger, vous avez écrit :
> > On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 05:57:43AM +0200, Yves Caniou wrote:
> > > I have a sharp PC-T1, with ubuntu jaunty, which doesn't have mplayer
> > > packaged. I took the mplayer-checkout-2010-10-23 tarball and tried to
> > > compile it, without success.
> > >
> > > $>./configure --disable-largefiles --disable-mencoder
> > > --prefix=/home/ycaniou/bin/mplayer
> > >
> > > 0) First, the proc seems to have "vfp" and "neon", but configure says
> > > that it is not able to. The code used to test this returns an error.
> >
> > When compiling for ARM you always have to specify the target CPU type via
> > --extra-cflags.
> 
> Using the following command line to configure, then make, halts on an error
> 
> $>./configure --disable-largefiles --disable-mencoder --prefix=/home/ycaniou/bin/mplayer --extra-cflags="-march=armv7-a -mtune=cortex-a8 -mfpu=neon -mfloat-abi=softfp -pipe" --enable-armvfp --enable-neon
> [...]
> AS      arm/mdct_neon.o
> CC      arm/mpegvideo_arm.o
> arm/mpegvideo_arm.c:33: error: size of array 'x_H263_AIC' is negative
> make[1]: *** [arm/mpegvideo_arm.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory 
> `/media/disk/mplayer-checkout-2010-10-23/ffmpeg/libavcodec'
> make: *** [ffmpeg/libavcodec/libavcodec.a] Erreur 2

The H263_AIC define in libavcodec/arm/asm-offsets has the wrong value.
You can try modifying by it e.g. +-4, +8, ... to find a working value.