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You should come on [[IRC]] to assist you during this phase.
 
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== Generic Steps  ==
 
== Generic Steps  ==

Revision as of 21:50, 16 January 2014

This guide will help you compile VLC media player for your platform.

This guide is intended for developers and power users.

You should come on IRC to assist you during this phase.

Warning: Do not put pre-release test binaries or git-compiles on software sites or on user-forums. We've had bad experiences with this before and we do not appreciate it.

Generic Steps

These are the main steps to follow to compile VLC :

  1. Prepare your compile environment,
  2. Get the source of VLC media player,
  3. bootstrap, using the ./bootstrap, if you took the code from repository,
  4. Prepare the extras libraries needed for VLC media player, read the list,
  5. Configure,
  6. and build, using make

Operating Systems

But there are the special HowTos for the OS you want VLC in.

Other compile guides

See also Category:Operating systems.