Solaris

Build VLC on Solaris / OpenSolaris

Needs to be (maybe heavily) patched.

Some old packages exists [1]

Requirements

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

Bootstrapping

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

export ACLOCAL_ARGS

/usr/xpg4/bin/sh bootstrap

Configuring

CSWlua  lua - a powerful light-weight programming language
        (sparc) 5.1.3,REV=2008.04.29

Using Sun Studio

LUA_CFLAGS="-L/opt/csw/lib/ -llua" 
export LUA_LIBS=$LUA_CFLAGS LUA_CFLAGS
./configure CCC=/opt/SUNWspro/bin/CC CC=/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc --includedir=/opt/csw/include/