INSTALL file for the VLC media player
-Mac OS X and BeOS users should read the documentation available at:
+More extensive information for *nix, Windows, Mac OS X and BeOS users can be found here:
http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/
Bootstrapping VLC
A typical way to configure VLC is:
- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-gnome
+ ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-wxwidgets
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 --prefix=/usr --enable-wxwidgets --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
+version manually by setting the CC and CXX environment variables
+appropriately while running the ./configure shell script.
Building VLC
Building packages
=================
-To build a Debian package, you may use:
-
+To build a Debian package, you need to get the packaging info
+ svn co svn://svn.videolan.org/pkg-multimedia/unstable/vlc/debian debian
+and then
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc