Compiling Moonlight on Fedora

[LinuxSneaker]

I am trying to get Moonlight to compile on my Fedora 9 box (yes, I know the reason's it's not in there already, but my wife wants to watch NetFlix on-line, and I am not standing up an XP box just for this).

Since I have to compile from SVN source to gain multimedia and SilverLight 2.0 support, I tried this:

svn co svn://anonsvn.mono-project.com/source/branches/mono-2-0
cd mono-2-0/mono/
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
make && make install
cd ../..
svn co -r 10885 svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk
cd trunk
rm -rf libswscale
svn co -r 26183 svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk/libswscale
./autogen.sh --enable-swscaler --prefix=/usr --enable-gpl
make && make install
cd ..
svn co svn://anonsvn.mono-project.com/source/trunk/moon
cd moon
./autogen.sh --with-managed=yes
make && make install

Everything is good until the last line, where I get this:

../doltcompile g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../cairo/src -I/usr/include/freetype2     -pthread -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include   -I/usr/include/alsa      -D_REENTRANT -pthread -I/usr/lib/pkgconfig/../../include/mono-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include   -Wall -DUSE_OPT_RGB24=1 -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\"Moonlight\" -I./asf    -fno-inline -g -fno-inline-functions -g  -DCOMPATIBILITY_BUGS=1 -MT collection.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/collection.Tpo -c -o collection.lo collection.cpp
utils.h:63: error: ‘ssize_t’ does not name a type
make[2]: *** [collection.lo] Error 1

Am I passing the wrong options to autogen.sh? Am I missing a library that ./compile is not reporting?

[LinuxSneaker]

Ok, since it looks like Fedora cannot compile the sourcecode for Moonlight, I will try to have wine run the Windows version of FireFox, then install the Windows XP plugin for SilverLight.

When I get THAT working, I'll post under this thread (with slight adjustment to subject line).

[TheIcebreaker]

Had to modify ssize_t thing to long to make it work at two places and it compliled and loads fine in firefox 3 at least. Can you post the sites which which wanted to work so that I can test them.

[olea]

The ssize_t bug is fixed in 1.0.1 [1]. So I've made a beautiiful set of packages for Fedora[2]. Enjoy!

[1] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=475699
[2] http://olea.org/diario/archive/2009/mar-15-1.html

[ctubbsii]

These are very lovely, and work great, thanks Olea.

Now, I don't suppose you'd be interested in working on making an equally beautiful package for the Moonlight 2.0 Alpha from SVN that has Silverlight 2.0 support, would you?

I've been playing with it for awhile and keep running into brick walls because I'm not familiar with this stuff (this stuff = building from source, making RPMS, etc.)

[olea]

Probably I'll try in the next weeks. Stay tuned.