X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=c0acd638b9c1e8137aa4f9cdd546280af8316881;hb=23c8d864bb82c2b464c1c2b03b483afd9d11802b;hp=6cc19066cf88f071c9de526db819a0212a26fdb3;hpb=6fb07d77f142c9eed3da1e281c66e482e836cf49;p=vlc diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 6cc19066cf..c0acd638b9 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1,13 +1,19 @@ 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 and Mac OS X users can be +found here: http://wiki.videolan.org/Compile_VLC + +People installing VLC for Windows from source MUST read: +http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32Compile Bootstrapping VLC ================= -If you retrieved VLC from the git server and do not have a "configure" -script, please refer to the HACKING file. +If you retrieved VLC from the git server and do not have yet a "configure" +script, please run: + + ./bootstrap Configuring VLC =============== @@ -25,8 +31,8 @@ symbols: 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 +required. On older systems (e.g. FreeBSD 4.x), please select a more recent +version manually by setting the CC and CXX environment variables appropriately while running the ./configure shell script. @@ -56,13 +62,3 @@ To build a Debian package, you need to get the packaging info git clone git://git.debian.org/pkg-multimedia/vlc.git debian and then git-buildpackage - - -To build RPM packages, copy a spec file from extra/package/rpm and: - - rpm -ba vlc.spec - -To build an ipkg package (iPAQ familiar Linux), use: - - ipkg-buildpackage -