Strange MPlayer error after successful install

Bryan Blackburn blb at macports.org
Tue Dec 23 01:07:52 PST 2008


On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 02:51:57AM -0600, Ryan Schmidt said:
>
> On Dec 22, 2008, at 21:19, Tim Visher wrote:
>
>> I've had a successful run of installing mplayer and now I'm getting a
>> strange error when attempting to use it.
>>
>>      dyld: Library not loaded: bin/libsmbclient.dylib.0
>>        Referenced from: /opt/local/bin/mplayer
>>        Reason: image not found
>>        Trace/BPT trap
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> I don't see that message on my system, but there are several interesting 
> things about it: 1) it has a relative path for the library it can't find; 
> usually they're absolute paths; 2) the library is being looked for in bin; 
> libraries virtually always live in lib; 3) the library version is after 
> .dylib, which is like on other operating systems where the version comes 
> after .so, but on Darwin, the version is supposed to come before .dylib, 
> e.g. libsmbclient.0.dylib.
>
> Do have a file somewhere on your hard drive whose name starts with  
> "libsmbclient"? If so where is it, and if it's in the MacPorts prefix, 
> what port installed it?

Probably samba3:

<http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16023>

Bryan



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