1 INSTALL file for the VLC media player
3 More extensive information for *nix, Windows, Mac OS X and BeOS users can be
4 found here: http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/
9 If you retrieved VLC from the git server and do not have a "configure"
10 script, please refer to the HACKING file.
15 A typical way to configure VLC is:
17 ./configure --prefix=/usr
19 See `./configure --help' for more information.
21 If you intend to debug stuff, you may want to compile with debugging
24 make distclean ; ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-debug
26 We recommend using GCC to build VLC, though some people reported success
27 with the Intel C compiler (version 8) as well. GCC version 3.3 or higher is
28 required. On older systems (e.g. FreeBSD 4.x, BeOS), please select a more
29 recent version manually by setting the CC and CXX environment variables
30 appropriately while running the ./configure shell script.
36 Once configured, run `make' to build VLC.
39 Installing and running VLC
40 ==========================
42 You can install the VLC and its plugins by typing:
46 But you don't need to install it if you don't want to; VLC can be launched
47 from the current directory as well:
55 To build a Debian package, you need to get the packaging info
56 svn co svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-multimedia/videolan/vlc/debian debian
58 dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc
61 To build RPM packages, copy a spec file from extra/package/rpm and:
65 To build an ipkg package (iPAQ familiar Linux), use: