Category:Building
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This guide will help you compile VLC for your platform.
Generic Steps
These are the main steps to follow to Compile VLC :
- 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
Warning: Do not put non-released test binaries or git-compiles on software sites or on user-forums. We have had bad experiences with this before and we do not appreciate it.
Operating Systems
But there are the special HowTos for the OS you want VLC in.
- How to compile for Windows (MSYS,Cygwin)
- How to compile on Mac OS X
- How to compile on Linux, BSD or other Unices
- How to compile on Solaris
- How to compile for WinCE (outdated)
- How to compile on BeOS (outdated)
- How to cross-compile for old ARM-based PDAs (outdated)
Other help
- 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
See also Category:Operating systems.
Pages in category "Building"
The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total.
