Compiling Audio::TagLib

Rodster001 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi,

I am running into an issue when compiling Audio::TagLib and I am at a loss (I have tried using cpan to install and manually downloading, both are failing). I am getting an error to recompile with a different flag, but I am not sure how to do this or why this is even an issue. I do not fully understand the problem nor how to fix.

chmod 644 TagLib.bs
rm -f blib/arch/auto/Audio/TagLib/TagLib.so
g++  -shared -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector -Wl,-E -fPIC TagLib.o 
+ -o blib/arch/auto/Audio/TagLib/TagLib.so         \
           -L/usr/local/lib -ltag -lz   \
          
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libtag.a(mpegfile.cpp.o): relocation R_X86
+_64_32S against `_ZTVN6TagLib4MPEG4FileE' can not be used when making
+ a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/local/lib/libtag.a: error adding symbols: Bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [blib/arch/auto/Audio/TagLib/TagLib.so] Error 1
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Any help would GREATLY be appreciated!

Thanks

UPDATE: Downgrading Taglib to 1.11 fixed the issue (see my reply below)

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Re: Compiling Audio::TagLib by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jul 13, 2017 at 23:19 UTC
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libtag.a(mpegfile.cpp.o): relocation R_X86 .... If libtag.a is a static library, you need to add -DTAGLIB_STATIC to the compiler flags. (I do this by providing a `DEFINE=-DTAGLIB_STATIC` argument to the 'perl Makefile.PL' command.) However, I don't know if that relates to the error message you received and, since a downgrade to version 1.11 is likely of little importance, it probably doesn't matter ;-) Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Compiling Audio::TagLib by Rodster001 (Pilgrim) on Jul 13, 2017 at 20:37 UTC
I am not sure what the issue is here. But I had TagLib 1.11.1 installed. I downloaded and installed TagLib 1.11 and that fixed the problem.	[reply]