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INSTALL file for the VLC media player |
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More extensive information for *nix, Windows, Mac OS X and BeOS users can be found here: |
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http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/ |
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Bootstrapping VLC |
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If you retrieved VLC from the SVN server and do not have a "configure" |
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script, please refer to the HACKING file. |
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Configuring VLC |
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A typical way to configure VLC is: |
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./configure --prefix=/usr |
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See `./configure --help' for more information. |
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If you intend to debug stuff, you may want to compile with debugging |
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symbols: |
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make distclean ; ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-debug |
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We recommend using GCC to build VLC, though some people reported success |
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with the Intel C compiler (version 8) as well. GCC version 3.3 or higher is |
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required. On older systems (e.g. FreeBSD 4.x, BeOS), please select a more |
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recent version manually by setting the CC and CXX environment variables |
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appropriately while running the ./configure shell script. |
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Building VLC |
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Once configured, run `make' to build VLC. |
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Installing and running VLC |
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You can install the VLC and its plugins by typing: |
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make install |
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But you don't need to install it if you don't want to; VLC can be launched |
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from the current directory as well: |
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./vlc |
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Building packages |
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To build a Debian package, you need to get the packaging info |
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svn co svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-multimedia/videolan/vlc/debian debian |
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and then |
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dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc |
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To build RedHat packages, use: |
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rpm -ba vlc.spec |
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To build an ipkg package (iPAQ familiar Linux), use: |
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ipkg-buildpackage |
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