How I compiled Darkice

Usually, installing an application from source on Linux/Solaris/BSD is easy:

1. ./configure --help (Always look at the help to see the options. It makes a difference if, for instance, you compile php without support for MySQL.)


2. ./configure


3. make


4. make install

However, with Darkice, it's prerequisites are numerous, and Darkice's configure doesn't find it's prereqs if they're installed in the standard locations. I've done this twice so far without documenting how I did it, so this time, I'm writing it down.

Here's my configure line:
./configure --with-vorbis-prefix=/usr/local/ --with-lame-prefix=/usr/local/lib/ --with-twolame=prefix=/usr/local/lib/ --with-faac-prefix=/usr/local/lib/

Then you'll get this when you launch darkice:
darkice: error while loading shared libraries: libmp3lame.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So you need to link that, and when you link that you'll get the next error, so here are both:
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libmp3lame.so.0 /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libfaac.so.0 /usr/lib/libfaac.so.0.
If you're wondering what links you're missing, try
ldd /usr/local/bin/darkice
If one of the links to the libraries reads "missing" then that's the one you need to link.

Yum install darkice might work for you, but then again, if you need all the features, it probably won't.
Prereq links are below. Generally ./configure, make, make install works well with all of them, but you really want to track exactly where each lib gets installed -- usually /usr/local/lib/.
Lame
Twolame
libogg
libvorbis
faac

Preqrequisite for faac or twolame -- I forget which:
libsndfile
Prereqs I didn't neeed:
Alsa
Jack