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
===============
A typical way to configure VLC is:
- ./configure --prefix=/usr
+ ./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-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
+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.
=================
To build a Debian package, you need to get the packaging info
- svn co svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-multimedia/videolan/vlc/debian debian
+ git clone git://git.debian.org/pkg-multimedia/vlc.git 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
-
+ git-buildpackage
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