ERROR: libmp3lame >= 3.98.3 not found

Question

I am installing ffmpeg utility, but I am facing libmp3lame >= 3.98.3 not found not found error. I am able to find lame-3.99.5-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm an

Answer 1

For configure troubleshooting see the ffbuild/config.log in the ffmpeg source directory.

In my case it had missing references to libmath functions, even if -lm was set in host_extralibs.

For a quick-fix add -lm to the configure script:

enabled libmp3lame        && require "libmp3lame >= 3.98.3" lame/lame.h lame_set_VBR_quality -lmp3lame -lm

Answer 2

On Ubuntu 16.04

sudo apt-get install yasm libmp3lame-dev

Then configure ffmpeg to build from source with libmp3lame:

./configure --enable-gpl --enable-libmp3lame --enable-shared

Answer 3

What worked for me was building lame from source. Download lame from here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lame/files/lame/3.99/, then extract and install:

tar -zxvf lame-3.99.5.tar.gz 
cd lame-3.99.5
./configure
make
sudo make install

Check to see where libmp3lame.a is:

locate libmp3lame.a

Its probably in /usr/local/lib.

Now when you go to configure ffmpeg, try adding that path to the end of your ./configure string. For me it made the difference. e.g.:

--extra-ldflags=-L/usr/local/lib

Answer 4

In my case the solution for ffmpeg/3.1.3 (based on https://github.com/Homebrew/legacy-homebrew/issues/44489) was to add:

--host-ldflags=-L/usr/local/lib

to the configure string.

Answer 5

this is my way:

install X11,and goto ffmpeg path,and code this in the Terminal:

    pkg-config usr/local/lib
    pkg-config usr/lib
    pkg-config usr/X11/lib

then code ./configure xxxx.

Answer 6

I just experienced this problem. I had lame v3.99.5 installed, but ffmpeg configure was giving ERROR: libmp3lame >= 3.98.3 not found.

In addition to --extra-ldflags, I had to specify --extra-cflags. So, the configure line was:

./configure [...] --enable-libmp3lame [...] --extra-ldflags=-L/usr/local/lib --extra-cflags=-I/usr/local/include