[FFmpeg-user] Building ffmpeg with vid.stab on Mac OS 10.8 anyone?

[Timothy Gu]

Hi,

On May 1, 2013 8:24 AM, "Robert Krüger" <krueger at lesspain.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Moritz,
>
>
> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Moritz Barsnick <barsnick at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> > Hi Robert,
> >
> > On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 15:34:22 +0200, Robert Krüger wrote:
> >
> > > I am trying to build ffmpeg with vid.stab support. I installed
vid.stab
> > > from git head and then configured ffmpeg from current head with
> > >
> > > ./configure --enable-gpl --enable-libvidstab
> >
> > From my experience on Linux with building and using a "local" (i.e.
> > with non-default location) libvidstab, ffmpeg's configure seems to
> > desire pkg-config for finding libvidstab. This may or may not be unlike
> > with other libraries.
> >
> > So please check whether
> > a) you have /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/libvidstab.pc, and
> > b) pkg-config by default also searches /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig .
> >
> > If b) does not apply, you might want to set the environment variable
> > PKG_CONFIG_PATH to point to /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig .
> >
> > Oh, another thought: Does ffmpeg search /usr/local? But as I mentioned,
> > vid.stab support seems to require pkg-config.
> >
> > Just guessing,
> > Moritz
> >
>
> and guessing well :-). That was it. The pc file wasn't in
> /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig and after creating the directory and manually
> adding it, configure and compile went through without problems.

The next time you had an configure error, try to look at config.log. Most
time it will give you a error message.

Timothy G.