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/ Bootstrapping VLC ================= If you retrieved VLC from the git server and do not have a "configure" script, please refer to the HACKING file. Configuring VLC =============== A typical way to configure VLC is: ./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-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 ============ Once configured, run `make' to build VLC. Installing and running VLC ========================== You can install the VLC and its plugins by typing: make install But you don't need to install it if you don't want to; VLC can be launched from the current directory as well: ./vlc Building packages ================= To build a Debian package, you need to get the packaging info svn co svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-multimedia/videolan/vlc/debian debian and then dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc 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