contribs/extras: Compensate for shortfalls in ffmpeg's svn repository. Will submit...

[vlc] / HACKING

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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ First
 
  - Read this file
 
- - Read the information present on http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/
+ - Read the information present on http://www.videolan.org/developers/
 
 
 Requirements
@@ -16,13 +16,11 @@ ____________
 
 You will need the following tools if you plan to use the SVN version of vlc:
 
- - autoconf version 2.50 or later
-
- - automake version 1.5 (but 1.6 or later is recommended)
-
- - gettext version 0.10.40 (but 0.11.3 or later is recommended)
-
- - perl version 5.005 or later
+ - Autoconf version 2.60 or later
+ - Automake version 1.9 or later
+ - gettext version 0.16.1 or later
+ - pkg-config
+ - libgcrypt 1.2 (or compatible)
 
 After retrieving the SVN tree, you need to run the bootstrap script to
 generate all the files needed to build vlc. You can then run configure.
@@ -85,4 +83,6 @@ Look at other modules for guidelines on how to add build and linkage options.
 After changing configure.ac you will always need to rerun bootstrap and 
 configure.
 
+VLC keeps a cache of its module (in ~/.vlc/cache on Linux), so you'll have to delete it. (or use vlc --reset-plugins-cache)
+Then use vlc -vvv --color --list to check that your plugin is seen by VLC.