The Debian packaging data have been moved to svn.v.o/pkg-multimedia

[vlc] / INSTALL

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+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,54 +1,49 @@
-INSTALL file for vlc, the VideoLAN Client
+$Id$
 
+INSTALL file for the VLC media player
 
-Configuring VideoLAN
-====================
+More extensive information for *nix, Windows, Mac OS X and BeOS users can be found here: 
+http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/
 
-A typical way to configure vlc is:
-
-   ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-gnome --with-sdl
+Bootstrapping VLC
+=================
 
-See `./configure --help' for more information.
+If you retrieved VLC from the SVN server and do not have a "configure"
+script, please refer to the HACKING file.
 
-Here is a shortcut to copy-paste for a complete build:
+Configuring VLC
+===============
 
-   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 --enable-alsa
+A typical way to configure VLC is:
 
-If you intend to debug stuff, you may want to disable optimizations:
+   ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-wxwindows
 
-   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 --enable-alsa \
-      --enable-debug
+See `./configure --help' for more information.
 
-It is also possible to cross-compile for the Win32 platform using mingw32:
+If you intend to debug stuff, you may want to compile with debugging
+symbols:
 
-   make distclean ; CC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc CFLAGS=-I/usr/i586-mingw32msvc \
-     RANLIB=i586-mingw32msvc-ranlib ./configure --host=i386-mingw32msvc \
-     --target=i386-mingw32msvc --build=i386-linux --disable-dsp \
-     --disable-gtk --disable-x11 --disable-xvideo
+   make distclean ; ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-wxwindows --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
@@ -57,8 +52,9 @@ from the current directory as well:
 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
 
 
@@ -66,3 +62,7 @@ To build RedHat packages, use:
 
    rpm -ba vlc.spec
 
+To build an ipkg package (iPAQ familiar Linux), use:
+
+   ipkg-buildpackage
+