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
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-debug
28 We recommend using GCC to build VLC, though some people reported success
29 with the Intel C compiler (version 8) as well. GCC version 3.3 or higher is
30 required. On older systems (e.g. FreeBSD 4.x, BeOS), please select a more
31 recent version manually by setting the CC and CXX environment variables
32 appropriately while running the ./configure shell script.
38 Once configured, run `make' to build VLC.
41 Installing and running VLC
42 ==========================
44 You can install the VLC and its plugins by typing:
48 But you don't need to install it if you don't want to; VLC can be launched
49 from the current directory as well:
57 To build a Debian package, you need to get the packaging info
58 svn co svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-multimedia/videolan/vlc/debian debian
60 dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc
63 To build RedHat packages, use:
67 To build an ipkg package (iPAQ familiar Linux), use: