[FFmpeg-user] ERROR: libass >= 0.11.0 not found using pkg-config

[Masaru Nomiya]

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  Subject    : [FFmpeg-user] ERROR: libass >= 0.11.0 not found using pkg-config
  Message-ID : <20241225202457.908d59c15458b96106ee769c at yahoo.co.jp>
  Date & Time: Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:24:57 +0900

[kozaick] == kozaick via ffmpeg-user <ffmpeg-user at ffmpeg.org> has written:

kozaick> Hello.
kozaick> I am trying to compile ffmpeg with libass included for windows in ubuntu container (docker).
kozaick> But I get an error when running the configure file.
kozaick> To check, I placed the following command in the test_pkg_config() method of the configure file.
kozaick> ---
kozaick> echo “Checking package: $pkg_version”
kozaick> pkg-config --exists --print-errors $pkg_version 
kozaick> echo “pkg-config exit code: $?”
kozaick> ---
kozaick> And display like this.
kozaick> ---
kozaick> Checking package: libass >= 0.11.0
kozaick> pkg-config exit code: 0
kozaick> ERROR: libass >= 0.11.0 not found using pkg-config
[...]

This says that libass.pc cannot be found. Your compilation method
should have created libass.pc, but since /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig is
missing, it is probably not installed.

How about this?

   1. $ sudo mkdir /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig

   2. $ sudo cp somewhere/libass.pc /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig

Best Reagrs & お休みなさい．

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