1 $Id: INSTALL,v 1.25 2003/03/19 15:44:44 hartman Exp $
3 INSTALL file for the VLC media player
5 Mac OS X and BeOS users should read the documentation available at:
6 http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/
11 A typical way to configure VLC is:
13 ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-gnome
15 See `./configure --help' for more information.
17 If you intend to debug stuff, you may want to compile with debugging
20 make distclean ; ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-gnome --enable-debug
26 Have a look at the generated Makefile.opts file, you may want to choose
27 which modules will be compiled as plugins, and which ones will remain in
28 the core application. The configure script tries to guess for you.
30 Once configured, run `make' to build VLC.
33 Installing and running VLC
34 ==========================
36 You can install the VLC and its plugins by typing:
40 But you don't need to install it if you don't want to; VLC can be launched
41 from the current directory as well:
49 To build a Debian package, you may use:
51 dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc
54 To build RedHat packages, use:
58 To build an ipkg package (iPAQ familiar Linux), use: