-$Id: INSTALL,v 1.25 2003/03/19 15:44:44 hartman Exp $
-
INSTALL file for the VLC media player
-Mac OS X and BeOS users should read the documentation available at:
-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 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 --enable-gnome
+ ./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-gnome --enable-debug
+ make distclean ; ./configure --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.
Building packages
=================
-To build a Debian package, you may use:
-
- dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc
+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 RedHat packages, use:
+To build RPM packages, copy a spec file from extra/package/rpm and:
rpm -ba vlc.spec
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