Help compiling ffmpeg from source

[Andy Wodfer]

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Da Rock <
freebsd-questions at herveybayaustralia.com.au> wrote:

> On 02/29/12 23:48, Andy Wodfer wrote:
>
>> I'm on FreeBSD 8.2 STABLE (AMD64).
>>
>> I need to install the latest ffmpeg 0.10, but it fails when compiling. I
>> must admit I very rarely do it this way. Normally all software is
>> installed
>> from ports, but I couldn't find this version of ffmpeg there.
>>
>> Heres what I do:
>>
>> ./configure
>> gmake
>>
>> and the problem looks like this:
>>
>> [snip]
>> /var/tmp//ccKzWhb0.s:26921: Error: `ff_h264_norm_shift(%r10d)' is not a
>> valid 64 bit base/index expression
>> /var/tmp//ccKzWhb0.s:26923: Error: `ff_h264_mlps_state+128(%edi)' is not a
>> valid 64 bit base/index expression
>> /var/tmp//ccKzWhb0.s:26931: Error: `-1(%r9d)' is not a valid 64 bit
>> base/index expression
>> /var/tmp//ccKzWhb0.s:26936: Error: `ff_h264_norm_shift(%ecx)' is not a
>> valid 64 bit base/index expression
>> /var/tmp//ccKzWhb0.s:27045: Error: `ff_h264_lps_range(%r9d,%r12d,**2)'
>> is not
>> a valid 64 bit base/index expression
>> /var/tmp//ccKzWhb0.s:27055: Error: `ff_h264_norm_shift(%r12d)' is not a
>> valid 64 bit base/index expression
>> /var/tmp//ccKzWhb0.s:27057: Error: `ff_h264_mlps_state+128(%r9d)' is not a
>> valid 64 bit base/index expression
>> /var/tmp//ccKzWhb0.s:27065: Error: `-1(%r11d)' is not a valid 64 bit
>> base/index expression
>> /var/tmp//ccKzWhb0.s:27070: Error: `ff_h264_norm_shift(%ecx)' is not a
>> valid 64 bit base/index expression
>> gmake: *** [libavcodec/h264_cabac.o] Error 1
>>
> Thats right, I remember this one- really simple but will get you every
> time! You need a newer gcc version (probably 4.6 will get you out of
> trouble if I remember correctly).
>
> The port already sets this, it will only bite when you're working solo.
>
>
Ok - thanks!

I'm currently doing this:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/custom-gcc/article.html

I will report back on how it goes. :-)

Cheers,
Andy