Hacker Guide/VLC source tree
Revision as of 06:40, 17 April 2019 by DoesItReallyMatter (talk | contribs) (+{{Back to|Hacker Guide}})
This page lists the directories in the source tree of VLC to give an overview of the code. Because VLC has evolved with not so much accumulation in mind, when a new coder looks at the code, s/he is terrified by the abundance of directories. This page was prepared to remedy that situation.
The directories are listed in alphabetical order, with an overview of their contents on the right.
| Directory Name | Directory Explanation |
|---|---|
| bindings | Java, CIL and Python bindings |
| for required libraries (contains Makefiles to automatically download and compile (or cross-compile) and patch those). Please first attempt to get the development headers precompiled for your distribution. | |
| Documentation (not up-to-date) | |
| See below | |
| Header files for VLC | |
| Contains all LibVLC control code | |
| Macro files needed for automake and autoconf | |
| The most important directory besides src/. See Hacker Guide/Modules source tree. | |
| i18n (language translation) files | |
| projects | Projects based on libvlc, Mozilla plugin, ActiveX plugin and Mac OS X Framework |
| icons, scripts to make VLC the default player etc. | |
| The most important directory besides modules/. See src source tree. | |
| scripts to see if everything is OK |
Contents of extras
| contains some code style editor (vim, emacs) macro and some valgrind suppressions | |
| contains alternative buildsystems | |
| extras/deprecated | contains deprecated files |
| contains files that don't fit into any other category | |
| contains distribution specific files such as ipkg, different rpm spec files, win32 and Mac OS X installation files. |
This page is part of official VLC media player Documentation (User Guide • Streaming HowTo • Hacker Guide • Modules)
Please read the Documentation Editing Guidelines before you edit the documentation
Please read the Documentation Editing Guidelines before you edit the documentation
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
