Building minidlna/ReadyMedia on Solaris 11

[Phil Stracchino]

I'm attempting to build minidnla-1.2.0 on Solaris 11.3 on a SunFire X4540 (amd64 architecture). I'm compiling with gcc-4.9.4. I have installed all required dependencies in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. However, when I try to configure minidlna, either 32-bit or 64-bit, configure fails at:

checking for exif_data_new_from_file in -lexif... yes
checking for id3_file_open in -lid3tag... no
checking for id3_file_open in -lid3tag... no
configure: error: Could not find libid3tag

libexif and libid3tag are right next to each other in the same directory. I have no rational idea of why this configuration test should be failing.

Has anyone successfully built minidlna on Solaris 11.3 and have any tips for resolving this configuration failure?

[Shrimpkin]

Just some basic checks. Did it find the id3 headers? Ex:

./configure | grep id3

checking id3tag.h usability... yes
checking id3tag.h presence... yes
checking for id3tag.h... yes
checking for id3_file_open in -lid3tag... yes

What's in your header (Use your include path)? Ex:

grep id3_file_open /usr/include/id3tag.h

struct id3_file *id3_file_open(char const *, enum id3_file_mode);

How about your object file (Use your lib path)? Ex:

objdump -TC /usr/lib/libid3tag.so | grep id3_file_open

000000338860d290 g    DF .text  0000000000000064  Base        id3_file_open

[Phil Stracchino]

Sorry for the long delay here, got busy and didn't have a chance to get back to it.

All of the above look exactly as they should. I traced the problem to this:

configure:9512: result: yes
configure:9530: checking for id3_file_open in -lid3tag
configure:9555: gcc -o conftest -march=native -mfpmath=sse -pipe -I/opt/ffmpeg/include -L/opt/ffmpeg/lib conftest.c -lid3tag >&5
Undefined first referenced
symbol in file
id3_compat_lookup /usr/lib/libid3tag.so
id3_frametype_lookup /usr/lib/libid3tag.so
id3_frametype_obsolete /usr/lib/libid3tag.so
id3_frametype_text /usr/lib/libid3tag.so
id3_frametype_url /usr/lib/libid3tag.so
id3_compat_fixup /usr/lib/libid3tag.so
id3_frametype_experimental /usr/lib/libid3tag.so
id3_frametype_unknown /usr/lib/libid3tag.so
ld: fatal: symbol referencing errors
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

I suspect the root problem here is that the Solaris 11 id3lib package is built with different options than minidlna needs. The solution was to remove the id3lib package and compile libid3tag myself.

This page is also helpful: http://sysdef.xyz/post/2014-10-22-solaris-upnp-linn-minidlna

However, this still only got me to this point:

monitor.c: In function 'monitor_insert_directory':
monitor.c:536:12: error: 'struct dirent' has no member named 'd_type'
switch( e->d_type )
^
monitor.c:538:9: error: 'DT_DIR' undeclared (first use in this function)
case DT_DIR:
^
monitor.c:538:9: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
monitor.c:539:9: error: 'DT_REG' undeclared (first use in this function)
case DT_REG:
^
monitor.c:540:9: error: 'DT_LNK' undeclared (first use in this function)
case DT_LNK:
^
monitor.c:541:9: error: 'DT_UNKNOWN' undeclared (first use in this function)
case DT_UNKNOWN:
^

[Shrimpkin]

Sorry, I'm not familiar with Solaris. I don't think minidlna is 100% POSIX compatible.

According to https://linux.die.net/man/3/readdir:

The only fields in the dirent structure that are mandated by POSIX.1 are: d_name[], of unspecified size, with at most NAME_MAX characters preceding the terminating null byte; and (as an XSI extension) d_ino. The other fields are unstandardized, and not present on all systems;

FYI, the version you are trying to build is newer than the version used (1.1.4) at sysdef.xyz. Did you follow the notes/guide on that webpage?