Unable to compile FFmpeg on Ubuntu 20.04
I am following this compilation guide for FFmpeg. After compiling all the required dependencies, I get the following error in the last section.
ERROR: gnutls not found using pkg-config
This error occurs when I run the configure command as below :
PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$HOME/ffmpeg_build/lib/pkgconfig" ./configure \
--prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" \
--pkg-config-flags="--static" \
--extra-cflags="-I$HOME/ffmpeg_build/include" \
--extra-ldflags="-L$HOME/ffmpeg_build/lib" \
--extra-libs="-lpthread -lm" \
--bindir="$HOME/bin" \
--enable-gpl \
--enable-gnutls \
--enable-libaom \
--enable-libass \
--enable-libfdk-aac \
--enable-libfreetype \
--enable-libmp3lame \
--enable-libopus \
--enable-libvorbis \
--enable-libvpx \
--enable-libx264 \
--enable-libx265 \
--enable-nonfree
I am compiling FFmpeg on a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04.
In the ffbuild
directory (path : ffmpeg_sources/ffmpeg/ffbuild/
), inspecting the config.log
gives more info on the error message :
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lunistring
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
ERROR: gnutls not found using pkg-config
With help from ffmpeg's IRC channel, installing the libunistring-dev
package fixed the problem.
sudo apt-get install libunistring-dev