X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=4c55efd0ac79d31a518310f188d0cc92ea669c65;hb=2a19f53cfef8183170cb32be9bb84d7b07a7837b;hp=593cdb0b9039e672b62ae61e5fc648e199786378;hpb=5b57fae4bc4f10c13ca88e56a529a97f3f4e566b;p=vlc diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 593cdb0b90..4c55efd0ac 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1,34 +1,38 @@ -$Id$ - INSTALL file for the VLC media player +===================================== + +More extensive information for *nix, Windows and Mac OS X users can be +found here: http://wiki.videolan.org/Compile_VLC -More extensive information for *nix, Windows, Mac OS X and BeOS users can be found here: -http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/ +People installing VLC for Windows from source MUST read: +http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32Compile Bootstrapping VLC ================= -If you retrieved VLC from the SVN server and do not have a "configure" -script, please refer to the HACKING file. +If you retrieved VLC from the git server and do not have yet a "configure" +script, please run: + + ./bootstrap Configuring VLC =============== A typical way to configure VLC is: - ./configure --prefix=/usr + ./configure 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-debug + make distclean ; ./configure --enable-debug 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 +required. On older systems (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. @@ -55,12 +59,12 @@ Building packages ================= To build a Debian package, you need to get the packaging info - svn co svn://svn.videolan.org/pkg-multimedia/unstable/vlc/debian debian + git clone git://git.debian.org/pkg-multimedia/vlc.git debian and then - dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc + git-buildpackage -To build RedHat packages, use: +To build RPM packages, copy a spec file from extra/package/rpm and: rpm -ba vlc.spec