checking for ffmpeg headers… configure: error: ffmpeg headers not found. Make sure you’ve built ffmpeg as shared libs using the –enable-shared option error while installing ffmpeg in cPanel servers.

Alex P — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:47:05 +0000

ello,

If you are getting following error while installing ffmpeg-php php extension in cPanel servers it seems that some header files are not located in “/usr/local/include/ffmpeg” directory.

Error.

checking for ffmpeg support… yes, shared
checking for ffmpeg headers… configure: error: ffmpeg headers not found. Make sure you’ve built ffmpeg as shared libs using the –enable-shared option

You can fix this error using the following steps .

1. Check whether “/usr/local/include/ffmpeg” directory is created while installing ffmpeg. If not, create this directory.

#mkdir /usr/local/include/ffmpeg

2. Copy the necessary ffmpeg header files to “/usr/local/include/ffmpeg”.

#cp -p /usr/local/src/ffmpeg/libavformat/avio.h /usr/local/include/ffmpeg
#cp -p /usr/local/src/ffmpeg/libavformat/avformat.h /usr/local/include/ffmpeg
#cp -p /usr/local/src/ffmpeg/libavcodec/avcodec.h /usr/local/include/ffmpeg

3. Once you have done this you need to install your ffmpeg(not ffmpeg-php) package again. After installing the ffmpeg, install ffmpeg-php.

This will fix your issue.

Regards

AlexP

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checking for ffmpeg headers… configure: error: ffmpeg headers not found. Make sure you’ve built ffmpeg as shared libs using the –enable-shared option error while installing ffmpeg in cPanel servers.