3 INSTALL file for the VLC media player
5 More extensive information for *nix, Windows, Mac OS X and BeOS users can be found here:
6 http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/
11 If you retrieved VLC from the SVN server and do not have a "configure"
12 script, please refer to the HACKING file.
17 A typical way to configure VLC is:
19 ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-wxwindows
21 See `./configure --help' for more information.
23 If you intend to debug stuff, you may want to compile with debugging
26 make distclean ; ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-wxwindows --enable-debug
32 Have a look at the generated Makefile.opts file, you may want to choose
33 which modules will be compiled as plugins, and which ones will remain in
34 the core application. The configure script tries to guess for you.
36 Once configured, run `make' to build VLC.
39 Installing and running VLC
40 ==========================
42 You can install the VLC and its plugins by typing:
46 But you don't need to install it if you don't want to; VLC can be launched
47 from the current directory as well:
55 To build a Debian package, you may use:
57 dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc
60 To build RedHat packages, use:
64 To build an ipkg package (iPAQ familiar Linux), use: