Solaris

Build VLC on Solaris / OpenSolaris

OpenSolaris

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 /usr/ccs/bin/ first) and the build process is applying gnu's options to sun's linker.

To use GNU's linker (optional): use a custom gcc build to use /opt/gnu/bin/gld. (vlc would fail on some gld only options like retain-symbols-file)

( your gcc -v output must no contain: --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld --without-gnu-ld )

Another, and unclean, solution would be to symlink /usr/ccs/bin/ld to /opt/gnu/bin/gld

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 /usr/xpg4/bin/sh instead of /bin/sh (not fully posix) (tip: CONFIG_SHELL=/usr/xpg4/bin/sh)
• bootstrapping requires to change subprocess shell (see patch below)
• filesystem.c needs to be patched for NAME_MAX
• skins2 module needs to be disabled (another NAME_MAX problem & other)

Blocking:

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

Boostrapping process required packages

Some old packages exists [1]

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

Config & Build process required packages

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

Sun Studio: We needed to build those up to date packages (installed in /opt/vlc, as seen in configuration)

VLCQt
VLCflac
VLClibxcb-devel
VLClibxcb
VLClua
VLCx264
VLCxcbproto
VLCxcbutil

Setting up your environment

For Sun Studio Assuming compiler in /opt/sunstudio12.1 and some customly built packages in /opt/vlc

# 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__" 

Using GCC Assuming some customly built packages in /opt/vlc

# 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 

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:

@@ -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`

ACLOCAL_ARGS="-I /usr/local/share/aclocal/"

export ACLOCAL_ARGS

/usr/xpg4/bin/sh bootstrap

Configure

/usr/xpg4/bin/sh configure  --with-a52=/opt/csw/ --with-mad=/opt/csw/ --disable-libgcrypt --disable-remoteosd --disable-skins2 --disable-glx

--with-gnu-ld might also be required (check configure result!)

Sun Studio: Add --disable-qt4 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 Only fix known: Replace wcsstr with wcswcs in that file.

Alternative code repository

All patches are on this fork. (until they make it into the main repository)

git clone git://repo.or.cz/vlc/solaris.git gitsolaris

Patches are kept on top of this fork using rebase and forced pushes. Don't expect to pull later updates without rebasing.