[Haiku PM] VLC doesn't work (missing library)

[Giova84]

I have downloaded VLC from Haiku Optional Packages website

When i attempt to start VLC on Haiku PM, i get the following error: "Missing library libz.so" I can see that inside "/boot/system/lib" there are present "libz.so.1.2.8" and "libz.so.1", and if i link libz.so.1.2.8 as libz.so (but inside a lib folder under the VLC installation directory, since "/system/lib" is read-only) i am able to properly run VLC.

In the regular branch of Haiku, libz.so (linked from libz.so.1.2.7) is present under /system/lib

[bonefish]

There should never have been a "libz.so" without soname in the first place. By outsourcing libz this has been remedied. We could probably add a respective symlink to the gcc 2 zlib package for the time being.

As a work-around you can create the symlink in "/boot/home/config/non-packaged/lib".

[diver]

Interestingly, vlc starts ok here (hrev46303) even though there's still no libz.so and vlc-0.8.6d/plugins/libxml_plugin.so (the only plugin) is linked to it.

[ronny]

VLC version 0.8.6i isn´t working. Older versions work on Haiku.

[pulkomandy]

Should we do something about this? I think creating a "lib" folder next to the executable and adding a symlink there for the lib works well enough. Moreover, the applications can be rebuilt anyway.

[Giova84]

This ticket can be closed: in the meantime, VLC (although it works poorly since an ancient version "0.8.6i") no longer presents this error on Haiku.

[pulkomandy]

Yes, rebuilding the app was enough and there weren't this many other things linking to libz, so we can save ourselves the workaround/hack to get them working.