1 INSTALL file for the VLC media player
2 =====================================
4 More extensive information for *nix, Windows and Mac OS X users can be
5 found here: http://wiki.videolan.org/Compile_VLC
7 People installing VLC for Windows from source MUST read:
8 http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32Compile
13 If you retrieved VLC from the git server and do not have yet a "configure"
21 A typical way to configure VLC is:
25 See `./configure --help' for more information.
27 If you intend to debug stuff, you may want to compile with debugging
30 make distclean ; ./configure --enable-debug
32 We recommend using GCC to build VLC, though some people reported success
33 with the Intel C compiler (version 8) as well. GCC version 4.8 or higher is
34 required. On older systems (e.g. FreeBSD 4.x), please select a more recent
35 version manually by setting the CC and CXX environment variables
36 appropriately while running the ./configure shell script.
42 Once configured, run `make' to build VLC.
45 Installing and running VLC
46 ==========================
48 You can install the VLC and its plugins by typing:
52 But you don't need to install it if you don't want to; VLC can be launched
53 from the current directory as well:
61 To build a Debian package, you need to get the packaging info
62 git clone git://git.debian.org/pkg-multimedia/vlc.git debian