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== Build VLC on Solaris / OpenSolaris  ==

Needs to be (maybe heavily) patched. 

Some old packages exists [http://www.blastwave.org/jir/search.fam?qs=vlc] 

===  Solaris 10, SPARC ===

===== Requirements  =====
<pre>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

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===== Bootstrapping  =====

Boostrap script needs to be able to run same subshells as parent.
If bootstrap fails on genmf, 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:
<pre>
@@ -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`
</pre>

<pre>ACLOCAL_ARGS="-I /usr/local/share/aclocal/"

export ACLOCAL_ARGS

/usr/xpg4/bin/sh bootstrap
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===== Configuring =====
<pre>CSWlua  lua - a powerful light-weight programming language
        (sparc) 5.1.3,REV=2008.04.29
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
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
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

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Using Sun Studio 
<pre>

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/opt/csw/lib/pkgconfig/

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

export AVCODEC_CFLAGS='-I/opt/csw/include/libavcodec/' AVCODEC_LIBS='-L/opt/csw/lib/'

export AVFORMAT_CFLAGS='-I/opt/csw/include/libavformat' AVFORMAT_LIBS='-L/opt/csw/lib/'

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

./configure CCC=/opt/SUNWspro/bin/CC CC=/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc --includedir=/opt/csw/include/ --with-a52=/opt/csw/ --with-mad=/opt/csw/
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