Category:Building

Generic Steps

These are the main steps to follow to Compile VLC are :

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

OS

But there are the special HowTos for the OS you want VLC in. UnixCompile OSXCompile and Win32Compile are probably the most helpful.

• How to compile for Windows (MSYS,Cygwin)
• How to compile on Mac OS X
• How to compile on Unix/Linux
• How to compile on WinCE
• How to compile on Solaris
• How to compile on BeOS (outdated)
• How to cross-compile for ARM

• How to compile a module outside of VLC source tree
• Compile DirectFB plugin
• Contrib Status - 3rd party libraries status.
• Links to the packaging in various distros

Warning

Don't put any of the non-released test binaries or svn-compiles on software sites or on user-forums. We have had bad experiences with this before and we do not appreciate it.

See also Category:Operating systems.