Hi I'm getting and error trying to compile ffmpeg with the enable-shared configure option. The latest lines are these
ar rc libavcodec.a bitstream.o utils.o mem.o allcodecs.o mpegvideo.o jrevdct.o jfdctfst.o jfdctint.o mpegaudio.o ac3enc.o m jpeg.o resample.o resample2.o dsputil.o motion_est.o imgconvert.o imgresample.o mpeg12.o mpegaudiodec.o pcm.o simple_idct.o ratecontrol.o adpcm.o eval.o dv.o error_resilience.o fft.o mdct.o mace.o huffyuv.o cyuv.o raw.o h264.o golomb.o vp3.o asv1 .o 4xm.o cabac.o ffv1.o ra144.o ra288.o vcr1.o cljr.o roqvideo.o dpcm.o interplayvideo.o xan.o rpza.o cinepak.o msrle.o msv ideo1.o vqavideo.o idcinvideo.o adx.o rational.o faandct.o 8bps.o smc.o parser.o flicvideo.o truemotion1.o vmdav.o lcl.o qt rle.o g726.o flac.o vp3dsp.o integer.o snow.o tscc.o sonic.o ulti.o h264idct.o qdrw.o xl.o rangecoder.o png.o pnm.o qpeg.o vc9.o h263.o h261.o msmpeg4.o h263dec.o svq1.o rv10.o wmadec.o indeo3.o shorten.o loco.o alac.o i386/fdct_mmx.o i386/cpute st.o i386/dsputil_mmx.o i386/mpegvideo_mmx.o i386/idct_mmx.o i386/motion_est_mmx.o i386/simple_idct_mmx.o i386/fft_sse.o i3 86/vp3dsp_mmx.o i386/vp3dsp_sse2.o ranlib libavcodec.a gcc -shared -o libavcodec.so bitstream.o utils.o mem.o allcodecs.o mpegvideo.o jrevdct.o jfdctfst.o jfdctint.o mpegaudio.o ac3enc.o mjpeg.o resample.o resample2.o dsputil.o motion_est.o imgconvert.o imgresample.o mpeg12.o mpegaudiodec.o pcm.o sim ple_idct.o ratecontrol.o adpcm.o eval.o dv.o error_resilience.o fft.o mdct.o mace.o huffyuv.o cyuv.o raw.o h264.o golomb.o vp3.o asv1.o 4xm.o cabac.o ffv1.o ra144.o ra288.o vcr1.o cljr.o roqvideo.o dpcm.o interplayvideo.o xan.o rpza.o cinepak.o m srle.o msvideo1.o vqavideo.o idcinvideo.o adx.o rational.o faandct.o 8bps.o smc.o parser.o flicvideo.o truemotion1.o vmdav. o lcl.o qtrle.o g726.o flac.o vp3dsp.o integer.o snow.o tscc.o sonic.o ulti.o h264idct.o qdrw.o xl.o rangecoder.o png.o pnm .o qpeg.o vc9.o h263.o h261.o msmpeg4.o h263dec.o svq1.o rv10.o wmadec.o indeo3.o shorten.o loco.o alac.o i386/fdct_mmx.o i386/cputest.o i386/dsputil_mmx.o i386/mpegvideo_mmx.o i386/idct_mmx.o i386/motion_est_mmx.o i386/simple_idct_mmx.o i386/ff t_sse.o i386/vp3dsp_mmx.o i386/vp3dsp_sse2.o -lm -lz -ldl -Wl,--warn-common -rdynamic /usr/bin/ld: i386/dsputil_mmx.o: relocation R_X86_64_32S can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC i386/dsputil_mmx.o: could not read symbols: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [libavcodec.so] Error 1 My "problem" is that dsputil_mmx is part of ffmpeg itself!! Why isn't that compiling? thanks maxxer

