> I prefer mplayer, and I'm getting by on the binary I got off Blastwave. > It's the principle that bothers me here: that people have managed to compile > VLC and mplayer under Solaris, but then they apparently did little to help > others do the same.
Hi Herzen, Actually, a lot of the people who have managed to compile mplayer on Solaris and OpenSolaris have posted guides for how to do it on the internet. Here is my favorite "how to" guide for how to build mplayer from source code using gcc, gmake, gawk and the SUNWxorg-headers: http://blogs.sun.com/lewiz/entry/compiling_mplayer_on_opensolaris_2008 The only thing that's different now from when this guy built it a year ago back in OpenSolaris 2008.05 is that you don't need Blastwave to get gawk anymore. You can use the SUNWgawk package from the official Opensolaris repository instead. Just run this command: pfexec pkg install SUNWgcc SUNWgmake SUNWgawk SUNWxorg-headers and then follow the rest of the instructions. Try this out and tell me in this thread if it worked for you or not. Message was edited by: system5 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
