Category:Building

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.

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--tareeq alaqeili 14:53, 7 January 2014 (CET)--tareeq alaqeili 14:53, 7 January 2014 (CET)== 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.

• How to compile for Windows (MSYS,Cygwin)
• How to compile on Mac OS X
• How to compile on Linux, BSD or other UniXes
• How to compile on Solaris

• How to compile for Android
• How to compile for iOS

• How to compile for WinCE (outdated)
• How to compile on BeOS (outdated)
• How to cross-compile for old ARM-based PDAs (outdated)

Other compile guides

• 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: 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.

See also Category:Operating systems.