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== Build VLC on Solaris / OpenSolaris ==

=== Status ===

{| class="mw-datatable cellpadding-1px" summary="Support status by platform"
|- class="cellpadding-2px"
! scope="col" style="border: none; background: none;" |
! scope="col" colspan="3" | Solaris/Oracle&nbsp;Solaris
! scope="col" colspan="4" | OpenSolaris
! scope="col" colspan="3" | OpenIndiana
|-
! scope="col" style="border: none; background: none;" |
! scope="col" | Solaris 11
! scope="col" | Solaris 10
! scope="col" | Solaris 10
! scope="col" | 2009/06
! scope="col" | 2009/06
! scope="col" | 2010/03
! scope="col" | 2010/03
! scope="col" | snv_134
! scope="col" | oi151a8
! scope="col" |
|-
! scope="col" style="border: none; background: none;" |
! scope="col" | x86
! scope="col" | x86
! scope="col" | SPARC
! scope="col" | x86
! scope="col" | SPARC
! scope="col" | x86
! scope="col" | SPARC
! scope="col" | x86
! scope="col" | x86
! scope="col" | SPARC
|-
! scope="row" | 2.x.x (videolan)
| style="background:#8BE09F;" | Yes (last tested 2.1.5)
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
| style="background:#8BE09F;" | Yes (last tested 2.1.5)
| 
|-
! scope="row" | master (videolan)
| {{Untested}}
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| {{Untested}} 
| {{Untested}}
| {{Untested}}
|-
! scope="row" | 1.x forks (videolan)
| 
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| {{Untested}}
| {{Untested}}
| {{Untested}}
|-
! scope="row" | [https://repo.or.cz/w/vlc/solaris.git master (repocz/solaris)]
| 
| {{Partial}}¹
| {{Partial}}¹
| {{Partial}}¹
| {{Partial}}¹
| {{Yes}} ''(Last tested 06/02/11)''
| {{Partial}}¹
| {{Untested}}
| {{Untested}}
| {{Untested}}
|-
! scope="row" | [https://repo.or.cz/w/vlc/solaris.git/shortlog/refs/heads/solaris-vlc-1.1 1.1 branch (repocz/solaris)]
| 
| {{Yes}} ''(Last tested 1.1.4)''
| {{Yes}} ''(Last tested 1.1.4)''
| {{Yes}} ''(Last tested 1.1.4)''
| {{Untested}}
| {{Yes}} ''(Last tested 1.1.6-git rel 1.1.7)''
| {{Untested}}
| {{Yes}} ''(Last tested 1.1.10)''
| {{Untested}}
| {{Untested}}
|}

¹ requirements: CSWautomake ≥ 1.11.1 / pkg://openindiana.org/developer/build/automake-111

{{Note-nb|'''Important Note''': Because of changes in VLC making xcb mandatory, video output modules relying on X11/XCB can't work until Solaris ships libxcb. Video output is currently done using SDL and will open on a separate window. Blastwave latest SDL builds uses xcb and are also unusable (referenced by sdl/aout). Configuring <code>--disable-sdl</code> makes builds possible, but you'll lose the sdl video output module too.}}

===== Up-to-date Binary Packages =====
(20150514)
A few repositories with binary packages exist (including QT).
If you want to build exactly those packages yourself or report packaging bugs,
then please check out the instructions on http://pkgbuild.wiki.sourceforge.net

If you want to directly install binary packages, then follow the instructions in the links below. The IPS repository setup instructions are listed there.

VLC 2.1.5 for OpenIndiana OI151a8 / OI151a9:
http://sfe.opencsw.org/localhostoi151a8 (hosting kindly provided by the OpenCSW project but content is solely from SFE project)

VLC 2.1.5 Oracle Solaris 11&trade;
http://sfe.opencsw.org/localhosts11 (hosting kindly provided by the OpenCSW project but content is solely from SFE project)

=== Building on OpenIndiana ===

===== Config &amp; Build process required packages =====

Start by adding the [https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Spec+Files+Extra+Repository extra repositories]:
<syntaxhighlight lang="text">
(outdated!) pkg set-publisher -p http://pkg.openindiana.org/sfe
(outdated!) pkg set-publisher -p http://pkg.openindiana.org/sfe-encumbered
</syntaxhighlight>

Required packages for build:
<syntaxhighlight lang="text">
pkg:/developer/build/automake-110
pkg:/developer/build/autoconf
pkg-config
pkg:/developer/gnome/gettext
pkg:/developer/build/libtool
</syntaxhighlight>

For modules:
<syntaxhighlight lang="text">
pkg:/library/video/ffmpeg@0.8.5-0.151.1
pkg:/library/desktop/g++/qt@4.7.3-0.151.1
</syntaxhighlight>

===== Setting up your environment =====

===== Configure =====


=== OpenSolaris (Deprecated) ===

Mostly follows Solaris instructions.

Note that despite the configure stage could be configured to call GNU's ld, the official gcc build always rely on collect2 and call the Sun linker.

If you get undefined retain-symbol-file errors, your path haven't been fixed for the configure step (must look into <code>/usr/ccs/bin/</code> first) and the build process is applying gnu's options to sun's linker.

To use GNU's linker (optional): Either use the <code>LD_ALTEXEC=/opt/gnu/bin/gld</code> environment variable, or use a custom gcc build to use <code>/opt/gnu/bin/gld</code>. (vlc would fail on some gld only options like retain-symbols-file)

( your <code>gcc -v</code> output must not contain: <code>--with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld --without-gnu-ld</code> )

An alternative to <var>LD_ALTEXEC</var> would be to symlink <code>/usr/ccs/bin/ld</code> to <code>/opt/gnu/bin/gld</code>

===== Config &amp; Build process required packages =====

Blastwave's additional packages
<syntaxhighlight lang="text">
CSWfaac
CSWfaad2
CSWffmpeglib
CSWgcc4corert
CSWgcc4g++rt
CSWggettext
CSWiconv
CSWisaexec
CSWlame
CSWlibogg
CSWlibxcbdev
CSWncurses
CSWpkgutil
CSWstl4
CSWsunmath
CSWtheora
CSWvorbis
CSWx264
CSWxvid
CSWzlib
</syntaxhighlight>
===== Setting up your environment =====

For Sun Studio
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
export PATH=/usr/ccs/bin:/opt/sunstudio12.1/bin:/opt/csw/bin:/usr/xpg4/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/ucb 
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/sunstudio12.1/lib:/usr/openwin/lib/X11/:/opt/kde4/lib
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/kde4/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/csw/lib/pkgconfig/
export CFLAGS="-D _XPG4_2 -D __SunOS -D __STDC_ISO_10646__ -D __EXTENSIONS__ -features=extensions -fast"
export CXXFLAGS=$CFLAGS
export CCC=/opt/sunstudio12.1/bin/CC CC=/opt/sunstudio12.1/bin/cc MAKE=gmake
</syntaxhighlight>
For GCC

Untested. See [[#Solaris 10, SPARC|Solaris/Sparc]].

===== Configure =====

Bootstrap has no problems since Osol uses bash. 
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
./configure --disable-libgcrypt --disable-remoteosd --disable-glx --disable-lua --disable-mad --disable-swscale --disable-postproc --disable-a52 --disable-fribidi --with-gnu-ld=no --enable-qt4 --disable-xcb
</syntaxhighlight>

=== Solaris 10, x86 ===

To be done. 

=== Solaris 10, SPARC ===

Sparc builds outside GCC, are currently unstable. 

*Many bugs fixed (until now). 
*all shells must point to <code>/usr/xpg4/bin/sh</code> instead of <code>/bin/sh</code> (not fully POSIX) (tip: <code>CONFIG_SHELL=/usr/xpg4/bin/sh</code>)
*bootstrapping requires to change subprocess shell (see [[#Bootstrapping]] below) 
*<code>filesystem.c</code> needs to be patched for <var>NAME_MAX</var>

Blocking: 

*Lots of ''<code>if (p==NULL) msgDbg("foo %s", p)</code>'' in the code segfaults in multiple places. Developers have assumed that&nbsp;%s is fixed as "(null)" like Glibc does. Not available on sparc. 
*crashes at network/httpd.c at <code>poll()</code> level.

===== Boostrapping process required packages  =====

Some old packages exists [http://www.blastwave.org/jir/search.fam?qs=vlc] 
<syntaxhighlight lang="text">CSWautoconf  autoconf - an extensible package of M4 macros
             (all) 2.65,REV=2009.11.30
CSWautomake  automake - GNU Makefile generator inspired by 4.4BSD make and include
             (all) 1.10.3,REV=2009.12.09
CSWggettext  ggettext - GNU gettext
             (sparc) 0.17,REV=2009.05.27
CSWgm4       gm4 - The GNU m4 implementation of the traditional Unix macro processor
             (sparc) 1.4.13,REV=2009.04.06
CSWiconv     libiconv - GNU libiconv is a Unicode conversion library
             (sparc) 1.13.1,REV=2009.07.01
CSWlibtool   libtool - Generic shared library support script
             (sparc) 1.5.26,REV=2008.12.22
CSWreadline  readline - GNU readline
             (sparc) 5.2,REV=2009.01.23

</syntaxhighlight> 
===== Config &amp; Build process required packages =====
<syntaxhighlight lang="text">
CSWlua  lua - a powerful light-weight programming language
        (sparc) 5.1.3,REV=2008.04.29
**
CSWffmpeg  ffmpeg - very fast video and audio converter (includes libavcodec) - binaries
           (sparc) 0.4.9,REV=2008.06.03_rev=svn12629
**
CSWliba52  liba52 - free ATSC A/52 stream decoder
           (sparc) 0.7.4,REV=2007.03.05
**
CSWlibmad  libmad - MPEG Audio Decoder
           (sparc) 0.15.1,REV=2005.03.26_rev=b
**
CSWlibpthreadstubs  libpthreadstubs - pthread stubs not provided by native libc
                    (sparc) 0.1,REV=2008.11.16
**
CSWx264             x264 - H264/AVC video encoder
                    (sparc) 1.0.0,REV=2009.12.13
**
CSWlibxcb  libxcb - The XCB library
           (sparc) 1.1,REV=2008.11.16
CSWlibxcbdev  libxcb_dev - The XCB library
              (sparc) 1.1,REV=2008.11.16
CSWlibxau     libxau - X11 authorisation library
              (sparc) 1.0.4,REV=2008.11.17
CSWlibxaudev  libxau_dev - X11 authorisation library
              (sparc) 1.0.4,REV=2008.11.17
CSWxproto  xproto - xproto
           (sparc) 7.0.14,REV=2008.11.15
CSWlibxdmcp     libxdmcp - X11 authorisation library
                (sparc) 1.0.2,REV=2008.11.16
CSWlibxdmcpdev  libxdmcp_dev - X11 authorisation library
                (sparc) 1.0.2,REV=2008.11.16
CSWfribidi  fribidi - a free implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm
            (sparc) 0.19.2,REV=2009.09.25
**
CSWqt  qt - A Cross-platform application framework for desktop and embedded development
       (sparc) 4.4.3,REV=2009.01.16
</syntaxhighlight>
Sun Studio: We needed to build those up to date packages (installed in /opt/vlc, as seen in configuration) 
<syntaxhighlight lang="text">VLCQt
VLCflac
VLClibxcb-devel
VLClibxcb
VLClua
VLCx264
VLCxcbproto
VLCxcbutil
</syntaxhighlight>
===== Setting up your environment =====

For Sun Studio Assuming compiler in <code>/opt/sunstudio12.1</code> and some customly built packages in <code>/opt/vlc</code>
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
# Required for bootstrap 
export ACLOCAL_ARGS="-I /opt/csw/share/aclocal/" 

# Required for configure 
export PATH=/opt/sunstudio12.1/bin::/opt/vlc/bin:/opt/csw/bin:/usr/xpg4/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/ucb 

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/vlc/lib:/opt/sunstudio12.1/lib:/opt/csw/lib
#:/opt/SUNWmlib/lib:/usr/openwin/sfw/lib

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/vlc/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/csw/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/vlc/qt/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig 

export LUA_LIBS='-L/opt/vlc/lib -llua' LUA_CFLAGS='-I/opt/vlc/include'

export MAKE=gmake 
export CONFIG_SHELL='/usr/xpg4/bin/sh' 
export CCC=/opt/sunstudio12.1/bin/CC CC=/opt/sunstudio12.1/bin/cc MAKE=gmake

export XLIB_XCB_CFLAGS='-I/opt/vlc/include/xcb/' XLIB_XCB_LIBS='-L/opt/vlc/lib/'

# -D_XPG4_2 required for non-sparc code compatible network structs
export CFLAGS="-I/opt/sunstudio12.1/include -I/usr/include -features=extensions -D _XPG4_2 -D __SunOS -D __STDC_ISO_10646__ -D __EXTENSIONS__" 
export CXXFLAGS="-I/opt/sunstudio12.1/include -features=extensions -D _XPG4_2 -D __SunOS -D __STDC_ISO_10646__ -D __EXTENSIONS__" 
</syntaxhighlight> 
Using GCC Assuming some customly built packages in /opt/vlc 
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"># Required for bootstrap 
export ACLOCAL_ARGS="-I /opt/csw/share/aclocal/" 

# Required for configure
export PATH=/opt/vlc/bin:/opt/csw/bin:/usr/xpg4/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/ucb 

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/vlc/lib:/opt/csw/lib:/opt/SUNWmlib/lib:/usr/openwin/sfw/lib

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/vlc/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/csw/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/vlc/qt/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig 

export LUA_LIBS='-L/opt/vlc/lib -llua' LUA_CFLAGS='-I/opt/vlc/include'

export MAKE=gmake 
export CONFIG_SHELL='/usr/xpg4/bin/sh'

# -D_XPG4_2 required for non-sparc code compatible network structs
export CFLAGS="-D _XPG4_2 -D __SunOS -D __STDC_ISO_10646__ -D __EXTENSIONS__" 
export CXXFLAGS=$CFLAGS 

</syntaxhighlight>
===== Bootstrapping =====

Bootstrap script needs to be able to run same subshells as parent. If bootstrap fails on <code>genmf</code>, then the subshell has fallen back to the default /bin/sh which isn't POSIX-compliant. In that case, you need to patch as follow: 
<syntaxhighlight lang="diff">
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([PKG_CHECK_MODULES],[ifelse([\$4], , :, [\$4])])
 EOF
 fi
 
-modules/genmf `sed -ne 's,modules/\(.*\)/Makefile,\1,p' configure.ac`
+$SHELL modules/genmf `sed -ne 's,modules/\(.*\)/Makefile,\1,p' configure.ac`
</syntaxhighlight> <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">ACLOCAL_ARGS="-I /usr/local/share/aclocal/"

export ACLOCAL_ARGS


/usr/xpg4/bin/sh bootstrap


</syntaxhighlight>
===== Configure =====
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
/usr/xpg4/bin/sh configure  --with-a52=/opt/csw/ --with-mad=/opt/csw/ --disable-libgcrypt --disable-remoteosd --disable-skins2 --disable-glx
</syntaxhighlight>
<code>--with-gnu-ld</code> might also be required (check configure result!)

Sun Studio: Add <code>--disable-qt4</code> if required. (Qt 4.6.0 Currently fails)

=== Qt4 Interface module ===

Trolltech only supports SunStudio builds. QT4 Interface is mainly C++, and creates ABI dependencies with Qt libs. Kde-solaris (bionicmutton) project packages offers the Sun ABI. If you wish to build the Qt4 Module, you need to build vlc with SunStudio, or build your own Qt library with GCC.

You should run into a without prototype 'wcsstr' issue in /opt/sunstudio12.1/prod/include/CC/Cstd/rw/traits<br> Only fix known: Replace <code>wcsstr</code> with <code>wcswcs</code> in that file.

=== libxcb ===

Libxcb must currently be disabled or you'll need to use custome build as there's no official support. It might make it into the official repository as the package went past the fasttrack process.

=== Fully patched code repository ===

All patches are on this fork. (until they make it into the main repository)
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
git clone git://repo.or.cz/vlc/solaris.git vlcsolaris
</syntaxhighlight>
Patches on master branch are kept on top of this fork using rebase and forced pushes. Don't expect to pull later updates without rebasing.

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