Configure

configure (also known as ./configure) is a BASH script used to gather information about your computer and select options on what to link to and how. Before running make (which compiles vlc), you should run configure.

If you are compiling source from CVS, then you should run bootstrap before running configure.

You can run configure like this:

./configure

Options

Below are some common options for configure:

option	meaning
--prefix=/home/user/vlc/	Sets the location of where to install vlc
--enable-flac	Turns on support for FLAC audio files
--enable-ffmpeg	Links with ffmpeg
--with-ffmpeg-tree=/home/user/ffmpeg	Location of ffmpeg source code

See `./configure --help' for more information.

Examples

Linux

./configure --enable-x11 --enable-xvideo --disable-gtk \
--enable-sdl --enable-ffmpeg --with-ffmpeg-mp3lame \
--enable-mad --enable-libdvbpsi --enable-a52 --enable-dts \
--enable-libmpeg2 --enable-dvdnav --enable-faad \
--enable-vorbis --enable-ogg --enable-theora --enable-faac\
--enable-mkv --enable-freetype --enable-fribidi \
--enable-speex --enable-flac --enable-livedotcom \
--with-livedotcom-tree=/usr/lib/live --enable-caca \
--enable-skins --enable-skins2 --enable-alsa --disable-kde\
--disable-qt --enable-wxwindows --enable-ncurses \
--enable-release 

Windows

From http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/vlc/INSTALL.win32

If you are cross-compiling from Debian, you can use something along those lines:

 ./bootstrap