[gmediaserver-devel] confused about id3lib

[Robert Wuest]

I'm trying to build gmediaserver-0.12.0 and have 
downloaded/built/installed id3lib v3.8.3 from 
http://id3lib.sourceforge.net,a s per the requirements documentation. 
However, id3lib is a c++ library and gmediaserver is written in c. 
gmediaserver configure fails to acknowledge my id3lib, even when I use 
--with-id3lib=/usr/local.

I manually hacked the config.h (#define HAVE_ID3LIB 1) and Makefile 
(ID3_LIBS = -lid3) to try and force it, but I get bunches of errors 
(yeah, I did expect it). Errors like :

/usr/local/lib/libid3.so: undefined reference to `VTT for 
std::basic_ifstream<char, std::char_traits<char> >'
/usr/local/lib/libid3.so: undefined reference to `operator 
new[](unsigned int)'
And on and on...........

I've also tried 'CC=g++ ./configure', but that still fails to find the 
installed id3lib. Hacked the config.h and makefiles and it then fails with:

full-write.c: In function ‘size_t full_read(int, void*, size_t)’:
full-write.c:65: error: invalid conversion from ‘void*’ to ‘char*’

I'm not going to win this one :)

What am I missing. I must have the wrong libid3. What is the right 
libid3 to use?


Robert