Compiling 32 bit mplayer on a 64 bit system?

**hoarycripple** · May 6th, 2008

I've compiled 32 bit mplayer successfully on x86_64 after some experimentation. Everything works well, and you can use the win32 codecs to play virtually any media file.

Install the required libraries prior to attempting the compile:
1. ia32-libs
2. libc6-dev-i386
3. g++-multilib

There may be a library I'm forgetting here, but configure will complain about it if there is something missing. If it complains about something and you can't figure it out, let me know and I'll try and decipher the error message for you.

Next, we need to go to the /usr/lib32 directory and make symlinks. For some reason, once the 32bit libs are installed, the correct symlinks are not made.

Code:

cd /usr/lib32
ln -s libX11.so.6 libX11.so
ln libXv.so.1 libXv.so

After that we can attempt the compile:

Code:

CC="gcc -m32" \
./configure --disable-runtime-cpudetection \
--target=i686-linux \
--libdir=/usr/lib32 \
--prefix=/usr/local \
--win32codecsdir=/usr/lib/win32 \
--enable-x11 \
--enable-xv

If all goes well, execute:

Code:

make
sudo make install
mv /usr/local/bin/mplayer /usr/local/bin/mplayer32
mv /usr/local/bin/mencoder /usr/local/bin/mencoder32

That should do it. You'll have to experiment with the video output configs for mplayer if you want something other than xv or X11 output. If, say, you want SDL output, you'll have to go into your /usr/lib32 dir and make the appropriate symlinks. But you get the idea...

I hope that helps.

hoarycripple

**eyelessfade** · May 7th, 2008

Thank you I will try this

Worked like a charm.

**phsource** · September 16th, 2008

Hi,

Sorry to resurrect such an old thread, but I am having trouble compiling MPlayer using this method. The problem is that it detects none of my encoder libraries or related items: here's what I found in configure.log

Here's what it says:

Code:

============ Checking for Xvid ============

#include <xvid.h>
int main(void) { xvid_global(0, 0, 0, 0); return 0; }

gcc -m32 -Wall -Wno-switch -Wpointer-arith -Wredundant-decls -O4 -march=i686 -mtune=i686 -pipe -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer         -o /tmp/mplayer-conf--3282 /tmp/mplayer-conf--3282.c -lxvidcore -lm
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/local/lib/libxvidcore.a when searching for -lxvidcore
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lxvidcore
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

It does not appear to look for the 32-bit version of xvid. Now, for Xvid, there's only one library and set of includes in /usr/local/lib, so I'm not sure if I can get that to work. However, I remember a few days back that it worked when I tried to compile it with everything. However, a reinstall's been done, and now it doesn't.

but for Freetype:

Code:

gcc -m32 -Wall -Wno-switch -Wpointer-arith -Wredundant-decls -O4 -march=i686 -mtune=i686 -pipe -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer         -o /tmp/mplayer-conf--3282 /tmp/mplayer-conf--3282.c -I/usr/include/freetype2 -lfreetype -lz
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.2.3/../../../libfreetype.so when searching for -lfreetype
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.2.3/../../../libfreetype.a when searching for -lfreetype
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/bin/../lib/libfreetype.so when searching for -lfreetype
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/bin/../lib/libfreetype.a when searching for -lfreetype
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libfreetype.so when searching for -lfreetype
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libfreetype.a when searching for -lfreetype
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lfreetype
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

How can I make it so that it looks in the right places? Freetype occurs in /usr/lib32, but it's not looking there. Do I need to get 32-bit libraries by getting new packages or anything? Do I need to use a different set of options?

Thanks

**duffrecords** · November 10th, 2008

It probably is looking in /usr/lib. Take a look at the error message. It needs freetype.so but if you look in /usr/lib32 you'll probably only find something like freetype.so.6. Just make a symbolic link to the library. I wrote a bash script that automatically does this for every library in /usr/lib32.

**marysiak** · April 10th, 2009

I got the message "bash: ./configure: No such file or directory" on trying to compile.

I just want audio on my wmv files, can they not pu some sort of warning on the 64-bit version that tells you not to bother installing it if you want your computer to actually work, I regret the day #i ever went near 64 bit architecture. I have spent so much time trying to get things to work that don't have 64-bit support.

**Cracauer** · April 10th, 2009

Originally Posted by marysiak

I got the message "bash: ./configure: No such file or directory" on trying to compile.

I just want audio on my wmv files, can they not pu some sort of warning on the 64-bit version that tells you not to bother installing it if you want your computer to actually work, I regret the day #i ever went near 64 bit architecture. I have spent so much time trying to get things to work that don't have 64-bit support.

That particular error message doesn't lead me assume it is an overly obscure 64 bit related problem...

**mc4man** · April 11th, 2009

There is a mplayer patch now for the 64 bit version that allows playback of wmv3 and wma3 (wma pro audio
wma lossless is still not playable

post about
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...84#post7036084

**laplaceme** · September 15th, 2009

For someone who meet the same problem as me.

I used hoarycripple's method and got errors like this when compile:

libavcodec/libavcodec.a(lcl.o)(.text+0xe5): In function `decode_frame':
: undefined reference to `inflateReset'

It turns out the problem is the zlib. I successfully compiled after adding "-lz" after "$(EXTRA_LIB) " in the Makefile and force installing "zlib1g-dev_1.2.3-6ubuntu4_i386.deb"

Originally Posted by hoarycripple

I've compiled 32 bit mplayer successfully on x86_64 after some experimentation. Everything works well, and you can use the win32 codecs to play virtually any media file.

Install the required libraries prior to attempting the compile:
1. ia32-libs
2. libc6-dev-i386
3. g++-multilib

There may be a library I'm forgetting here, but configure will complain about it if there is something missing. If it complains about something and you can't figure it out, let me know and I'll try and decipher the error message for you.

Next, we need to go to the /usr/lib32 directory and make symlinks. For some reason, once the 32bit libs are installed, the correct symlinks are not made.

Code:

cd /usr/lib32
ln -s libX11.so.6 libX11.so
ln libXv.so.1 libXv.so

After that we can attempt the compile:

Code:

CC="gcc -m32" \
./configure --disable-runtime-cpudetection \
--target=i686-linux \
--libdir=/usr/lib32 \
--prefix=/usr/local \
--win32codecsdir=/usr/lib/win32 \
--enable-x11 \
--enable-xv

If all goes well, execute:

Code:

make
sudo make install
mv /usr/local/bin/mplayer /usr/local/bin/mplayer32
mv /usr/local/bin/mencoder /usr/local/bin/mencoder32

That should do it. You'll have to experiment with the video output configs for mplayer if you want something other than xv or X11 output. If, say, you want SDL output, you'll have to go into your /usr/lib32 dir and make the appropriate symlinks. But you get the idea...

I hope that helps.

hoarycripple