Hacker Guide/VLC source tree
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 |
| doc | Documentation (not up-to-date) |
| extras | See below |
| include | Header files for VLC |
| libs | Contains the loader (win32 dmo codec loading on Linux) and a SRTP library |
| lxdialog | Make menuconfig files |
| m4 | Macro files needed for automake and autoconf |
| modules | The most important directory besides src/. See Modules source tree. |
| po | i18n files |
| projects | Projects based on libvlc, Mozilla plugin, ActiveX plugin and MacOS FrameWork |
| share | icons, scripts to make VLC the default player etc. |
| src | The most important directory besides modules/. See src source tree. |
| test | scripts to see if everything is OK |
Contents of extras
| extras/analyser | contains some code style editor (vim, emacs) macro and some valgrind suppressions |
| extras/buildsystem | contains alternative buildsystems |
| extras/contrib | 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. |
| extras/deprecated | contains deprecated files |
| extras/misc | contains files that don't fit into any other category |
| extras/package | contains distribution specific files such as ipkg, different rpm spec files, win32 and Mac OS X installation files. |
