Compiling FAAD & FAAC

[morikaweb]

Does anyone know how to compile FAAD2 adn FAAC from source. I seem to have everything needed but still errors.

Has anyone successfully compiled these two programs. And if so please tell me exactly how you did it.

I have followed many people advice on how to do it. but I get error, and different errors depending on who advice I follow.

Thanks all

[michellembrodeur]

Re: Compiling FAAD & FAAC

Does anyone know how to compile FAAD2 adn FAAC from source. I seem to have everything needed but still errors.

Has anyone successfully compiled these two programs. And if so please tell me exactly how you did it.

I have followed many people advice on how to do it. but I get error, and different errors depending on who advice I follow.

Thanks all

I have problems too.

this is the error I get.

michelle@krynn:~/faad2$ autoreconf -vif
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.in: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force
autoreconf: configure.in: tracing
autoreconf: configure.in: not using Libtool
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force
configure.in:14: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
See the Autoconf documentation.
autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
michelle@krynn:~/faad2$

I do have libtool installed through synaptic.

So how come it does not find it?

thanks all

[claydoh]

Re: Compiling FAAD & FAAC

try installing a different version of automake, there are a few versions available (for compatibility issues) and they ae made so thay can all be installed if needed. I have versions 1.7 and 1.9 installed, and that seems to work for me.

The error

configure.in:14: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL

makes me think this is an automake version issue as those papckages contain the macros used to help set up the compiling operations

[michellembrodeur]

Re: Compiling FAAD & FAAC

try installing a different version of automake, there are a few versions available (for compatibility issues) and they ae made so thay can all be installed if needed. I have versions 1.7 and 1.9 installed, and that seems to work for me.

The error

configure.in:14: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL

makes me think this is an automake version issue as those papckages contain the macros used to help set up the compiling operations

Talking to Morikaweb she has automake 1.4 standard for Dapper. I have 1.9 and still we get the errors.


Edit: I just installed automake 1.7, 1.8 also. I now have 4 versions. But how do you tell the command autoconf -vif to try each version?

[claydoh]

Re: Compiling FAAD & FAAC

I will try this out myself tomorrow, time permitting. I would also suggest asking/searching around in http://www.audiocoding.com forums, faad/faac's homepage.

[michellembrodeur]

Re: Compiling FAAD & FAAC

I will try this out myself tomorrow, time permitting. I would also suggest asking/searching around in http://www.audiocoding.com forums, faad/faac's homepage.

Thanks, I tried thoughs forums but no help there.

[morikaweb]

Re: Compiling FAAD & FAAC

Well I never did get it to compile, but I figured out what was wrong with my sources.list and installed the faad and faac dev files. With those packages I managed to compile the other software I needed.