X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=4c55efd0ac79d31a518310f188d0cc92ea669c65;hb=c79789502fcc9f979afc47fc45bbb9a2150528ed;hp=7f3a2160d4d6bea158901d4bc840b0228cef3804;hpb=16af75f1bbc0f0e240d969ef0616de5725a88ddc;p=vlc diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 7f3a2160d4..4c55efd0ac 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1,32 +1,38 @@ 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/ +More extensive information for *nix, Windows and Mac OS X users can be +found here: http://wiki.videolan.org/Compile_VLC + +People installing VLC for Windows from source MUST read: +http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32Compile Bootstrapping VLC ================= -If you retrieved VLC from the git 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.