Transcoding with macports HELP!

[thomasbruce]

hi

i'm on a mac running 10.6.3

i've downloaded maports and installed the .pkg i opened and tried terminal and x11 and wrote the code sudo port install lame but i just get error. is there something i'm missing/doing wrong? i want to be able to play m4a files. thanks!


---> Computing dependencies for lame
---> Configuring ncursesw
Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_ncursesw/work/ncurses-5.7" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --enable-widec --disable-rpath --with-shared --without-debug --without-ada --enable-sigwinch --mandir=/opt/local/share/man --with-manpage-format=normal " returned error 77
Command output: checking for egrep... grep -E
Configuring NCURSES 5.7 ABI 5 (Wed Apr 14 23:55:51 CEST 2010)
checking build system type... i386-apple-darwin10.3.0
checking host system type... i386-apple-darwin10.3.0
checking target system type... i386-apple-darwin10.3.0
Configuring for darwin10.3.0
checking for prefix... /opt/local
checking for gcc... /usr/bin/gcc-4.2
checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

Error: The following dependencies failed to build: ncurses ncursesw
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
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[sindre_mehus]

I think you get this error if you haven't installed Xcode first, which is a requirement for MacPorts.

More info here: http://www.macports.org/install.php

[einsteinx2]

Or you can grab these binaries than joshpar compiled: http://www.realizedsound.net/josh/transcode.zip

[thomasbruce]

thank you!

i tried the binaries, i was not sure where to put them, but i tried in library/application support/subsonic/trancode and replaced the two shortcuts that was there. was this the right thing to do? i still got no sound playing my m4a files, but i think it atleast buffers the song. cant remember if it did that before but i dont think so.

is there anything else i can try to make this work?