Vim can't find C++ libavformat/libavutil library (No such file or directory)

Question

Loading up the omxplayer.cpp file in vim and it gives me the following error:

omxplayer.cpp|34 col 34| fatal error: libavformat/avformat.h: No such file or directory

This is where the problem is occurring

#include <libavformat/avformat.h>
#include <libavutil/avutil.h>

But I know the files exist:

$ ls -l /usr/lib/libavu*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     28 2013-11-08 13:46 /usr/lib/libavutil.so -> /usr/lib/libavutil.so.51.7.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     19 2012-06-13 12:38 /usr/lib/libavutil.so.51 -> libavutil.so.51.7.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117212 2012-06-13 12:38 /usr/lib/libavutil.so.51.7.0
$ ls -l /usr/lib/libavf*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      30 2013-11-08 13:29 /usr/lib/libavformat.so -> /usr/lib/libavformat.so.53.3.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      21 2012-06-13 12:38 /usr/lib/libavformat.so.53 -> libavformat.so.53.3.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1053000 2012-06-13 12:38 /usr/lib/libavformat.so.53.3.0

And ldconfig can also find them:

$ ldconfig -p | grep libavformat && ldconfig -p | grep libavutil
libavformat.so.53 (libc6, hwcap: 0x0008000000008000) => /usr/lib/i686/cmov/libavformat.so.53
libavformat.so.53 (libc6) => /usr/lib/libavformat.so.53
libavutil.so.51 (libc6, hwcap: 0x0008000000008000) => /usr/lib/i686/cmov/libavutil.so.51
libavutil.so.51 (libc6) => /usr/lib/libavutil.so.51

I have read somewhere that ldconfig is for run time whereas ld is for build time, however, in this case I know the libraries are there in /usr/lib, therefore, what could be causing this problem?

Answer 1

omxplayer.cpp|34 col 34| fatal error: libavformat/avformat.h: No such file or directory

Error message says all: It is not in library, But it is header file which is not found. Normal location is /usr/include/libavformat .

first check by command whether header location is included by g++ -v omxplayer.cpp , This command will show what all directories are included for header files.

if it dows not show directory containing specified header then you need to specify it's location in g++ -Ipath/to/headers omxplayer.cpp. command.