X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=c0acd638b9c1e8137aa4f9cdd546280af8316881;hb=d6ca8ac696ebc4b4db58dd15977bc938d83b4981;hp=0ef59009c2d7ad23fa0c005f453562fc27d61a43;hpb=6662b32f51193ab2e8aef48af832178ab085ce15;p=vlc diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 0ef59009c2..c0acd638b9 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1,34 +1,37 @@ -$Id$ - INSTALL file for the VLC media player +===================================== + +More extensive information for *nix, Windows and Mac OS X users can be +found here: http://wiki.videolan.org/Compile_VLC -More extensive information for *nix, Windows, Mac OS X and BeOS users can be found here: -http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/ +People installing VLC for Windows from source MUST read: +http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32Compile Bootstrapping VLC ================= -If you retrieved VLC from the SVN 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 =============== 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 +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), please select a more recent version manually by setting the CC and CXX environment variables appropriately while running the ./configure shell script. @@ -36,10 +39,6 @@ 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. @@ -60,16 +59,6 @@ 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 - - -To build RedHat packages, use: - - rpm -ba vlc.spec - -To build an ipkg package (iPAQ familiar Linux), use: - - ipkg-buildpackage - + git-buildpackage