X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=6cc19066cf88f071c9de526db819a0212a26fdb3;hb=12ade3e3bc975d5426ba4af155b7372c31093b31;hp=0ef59009c2d7ad23fa0c005f453562fc27d61a43;hpb=6662b32f51193ab2e8aef48af832178ab085ce15;p=vlc diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 0ef59009c2..6cc19066cf 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1,14 +1,12 @@ -$Id$ - INSTALL file for the VLC media player -More extensive information for *nix, Windows, Mac OS X and BeOS users can be found here: -http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/ +More extensive information for *nix, Windows, Mac OS X and BeOS users can be +found here: http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/ Bootstrapping VLC ================= -If you retrieved VLC from the SVN server and do not have a "configure" +If you retrieved VLC from the git server and do not have a "configure" script, please refer to the HACKING file. Configuring VLC @@ -16,30 +14,25 @@ Configuring VLC A typical way to configure VLC is: - ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-wxwidgets + ./configure 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-wxwidgets --enable-debug + make distclean ; ./configure --enable-debug -We recommend using GCC (versions 3.3 or later) to build VLC, though some -people reported success with the Intel C compiler (version 8) as well. As of -VLC version 0.9.0, GCC 2.95 is not supported anymore; if this is the default -compiler on your system (e.g. FreeBSD 4.x), please select a more recent -version manually by setting the CC and CXX environment variables +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. @@ -60,12 +53,12 @@ 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 + git clone git://git.debian.org/pkg-multimedia/vlc.git debian and then - dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc + git-buildpackage -To build RedHat packages, use: +To build RPM packages, copy a spec file from extra/package/rpm and: rpm -ba vlc.spec