-INSTALL file for vlc, the VideoLAN Client
+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/
-Building VideoLAN
+Bootstrapping VLC
=================
-A typical way to configure the vlc is :
+If you retrieved VLC from the git server and do not have a "configure"
+script, please refer to the HACKING file.
- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-mmx --enable-gnome
+Configuring VLC
+===============
-For a full compilation, you may try :
+A typical way to configure VLC is:
- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-mmx --enable-gnome --enable-fb \
- --enable-glide --enable-ggi --enable-sdl --enable-esd --enable-alsa
+ ./configure --prefix=/usr
See `./configure --help' for more information.
-Then, run `make', and `make install' to install it.
+If you intend to debug stuff, you may want to compile with debugging
+symbols:
+ make distclean ; ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-debug
-To build a Debian package, you may use :
-
- dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc
+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
+appropriately while running the ./configure shell script.
-To build RedHat packages, use :
+Building VLC
+============
- rpm -ba vlc.spec
+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 do it if you don't want ; vlc can be launched
-from the current directory as well :
+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
+
+Building packages
+=================
+
+To build a Debian package, you need to get the packaging info
+ svn co svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-multimedia/videolan/vlc/debian 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
+