[64studio-devel] Encoding with Lame

[Quentin Harley]

mmmmna wrote:
> I wanted to grab Lame 3.97 today, but I'm not certain the project data
> in all the Sourceforge pages are making much sense. One page declares
> 3.97 is Beta, another page says it is official. 

Hey mmmmna (what does that stand for btw?)

On the download page you can still get copies of the beta packages.  Do 
get the official release (either the top one on the download page or

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/lame/lame-3.97.tar.gz?modtime=1159107882&big_mirror=0


> What will I (an admitted non-coder) have to do in order to have any 32
> bit package of source code properly compile for 64 bit Linux?
>
>   

The source code is not architecture specific.  Thus, compile and make 
away!  This is why linux is so portable.

> Anyhow.... I do think these requests for help could be of greater use
> in a forum (nudge nudge). 

forum++;

> And don't get me started on those compiler
> messages that begin with "Error..." (you know us non-coders, we think
> differently about messages appearing on the commandline - was that
> really an error in the source code or is the compiler misconfigured or
> is this stuff normal or is it none of the above?).
>   

Just make sure you have all the dependencies loaded.  Everything should 
then run ok  (hopefully)

Quentin