X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=3cfe1347119be85eed7d32b33dee35e0c210d68c;hb=49ab2f56bf3809a18933baac3297e512fc115169;hp=dcc93bcad216ecc02a5e4ed8f951781170884e55;hpb=fe35447f93056ffac86e6127b1710aedb1334c38;p=vlc diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index dcc93bcad2..3cfe134711 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1,5 +1,3 @@ -$Id$ - INSTALL file for the VLC media player More extensive information for *nix, Windows, Mac OS X and BeOS users can be found here: @@ -16,23 +14,25 @@ Configuring VLC A typical way to configure VLC is: - ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-wxwindows + ./configure --prefix=/usr See `./configure --help' for more information. If you intend to debug stuff, you may want to compile with debugging symbols: - make distclean ; ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-wxwindows --enable-debug + make distclean ; ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-debug + +We recommend using GCC to build VLC, though some people reported success +with the Intel C compiler (version 8) as well. GCC version 3.3 or higher is +required. On older systems (e.g. FreeBSD 4.x, BeOS), please select a more +recent version manually by setting the CC and CXX environment variables +appropriately while running the ./configure shell script. Building VLC ============ -Have a look at the generated Makefile.opts file, you may want to choose -which modules will be compiled as plugins, and which ones will remain in -the core application. The configure script tries to guess for you. - Once configured, run `make' to build VLC. @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Building packages ================= To build a Debian package, you need to get the packaging info - svn co svn://svn.videolan.org/pkg-multimedia/unstable/vlc/debian debian + svn co svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-multimedia/videolan/vlc/debian debian and then dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc