* INSTALL: added reference to online info on compiling on MacOSX and BeOS

[vlc] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 7faafafbbd6019f7d4fcc8d1dc5d0ace8fb4f5d8..547718c4647a5a43c290807277ad0cc0a70148e1 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,47 +1,43 @@
-INSTALL file for vlc, the VideoLAN Client
+$Id: INSTALL,v 1.25 2003/03/19 15:44:44 hartman Exp $
 
+INSTALL file for the VLC media player
 
-Configuring VideoLAN
-====================
+Mac OS X and BeOS users should read the documentation available at: 
+http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/
 
-A typical way to configure vlc is:
+Configuring VLC
+===============
 
-   ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-gnome --with-sdl
+A typical way to configure VLC is:
 
-See `./configure --help' for more information.
-
-Here is a shortcut to copy-paste for a complete build:
+   ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-gnome
 
-   make distclean && ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-gnome \
-      --enable-fb --with-glide --with-ggi --with-sdl --enable-esd \
-      --enable-mga --enable-gtk --enable-qt --enable-xvideo
+See `./configure --help' for more information.
 
-If you intend to debug stuff, you may want to disable optimizations:
+If you intend to debug stuff, you may want to compile with debugging
+symbols:
 
-   make distclean && ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-gnome \
-      --enable-fb --with-glide --with-ggi --with-sdl --enable-esd \
-      --enable-mga --enable-gtk --enable-qt --enable-xvideo \
-      --disable-optimizatons
+   make distclean ; ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-gnome --enable-debug
 
 
-Building VideoLAN
-=================
+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.
+Once configured, run `make' to build VLC.
 
 
-Installing and running VideoLAN
-===============================
+Installing and running VLC
+==========================
 
-You can install the vlc and its plugins by typing:
+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
+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
@@ -59,3 +55,7 @@ To build RedHat packages, use:
 
    rpm -ba vlc.spec
 
+To build an ipkg package (iPAQ familiar Linux), use:
+
+   ipkg-buildpackage
+