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VLS (aka VideoLAN Server) is an outdated streaming solution. More information is available on http://www.videolan.org/vlc/streaming.html.

Unless you really know what you are doing, we advise that you use VLC instead as it is far more powerfull than VLS.

==Known problems==

VLS isn't compatible with GCC 4. You will thus need to use GCC 2.9, 3.3 or 3.4 to compile, or submit a patch to fix compilation problems on GCC 4.


== Solutions ==

=== Mandrake Patch ===

Mandrake Linux supplies a patch for vls 0.5.6 that fixes compilation on gcc 3.4. The patch also works for gcc 4+ (Tested with 4.0.2 & 4.1.2).
The patch file (vls-0.5.6-gcc34.patch from vls-0.5.6-5mdk.src.rpm):

<pre>

--- ./src/core/library.cpp.tv	2004-06-30 18:58:00.527941222 +0200
+++ ./src/core/library.cpp	2004-06-30 18:58:45.777047645 +0200
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 *
 *******************************************************************************/
 
-
+#include <dlfcn.h>
 
 //------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // Preamble
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
 # ifdef RTLD_NOW
   m_hHandle = dlopen(m_strName.GetString(), RTLD_NOW);
 # else
-  m_hHandle = dlopen(m_strName.GetString(), DL_LAZY);
+  m_hHandle = dlopen(m_strName.GetString(), RTLD_LAZY);
 # endif
   if(m_hHandle == NULL)
   {
--- ./src/core/hashtable.h.tv	2004-06-30 18:53:44.712993043 +0200
+++ ./src/core/hashtable.h	2004-06-30 18:53:13.241614538 +0200
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
 };
 
 
-class C_HashMethod<u32>
+template <> class C_HashMethod<u32>
 {
  public:
   inline C_HashMethod(u32 uiMaxHash);
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
 };
 
 
-class C_HashMethod<u16>
+template <> class C_HashMethod<u16>
 {
  public:
   inline C_HashMethod(u32 uiMaxHash);
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
 };
 
 
-class C_HashMethod<handle>
+template <> class C_HashMethod<handle>
 {
  public:
   inline C_HashMethod(u32 uiMaxHash);
--- ./src/core/stream.cpp.tv	2004-06-30 18:59:00.374759370 +0200
+++ ./src/core/stream.cpp	2004-06-30 19:01:02.921339327 +0200
@@ -317,6 +317,8 @@
 template <class IOStream>
  C_Stream<IOStream>& C_Stream<IOStream>::operator >> (C_Serializable& cObject)
 {
+  C_ClassDescription cObjectDescription = cObject.Reflect();
+  C_Serializer cSerializer(&cObject, cObjectDescription);
   try
   {
     u32 iByteCount = cSerializer.NextBytesCount();
@@ -324,11 +326,12 @@
     {
       const byte aBytes[iByteCount];
       u32 iOffset = 0;
+	  int iRc;
 
       // Read the data to deserialize on the stream
       do
       {
-        int iRc = m_pIOStream->Read(aBytes+iOffset, iByteCount-iOffset);
+        iRc = m_pIOStream->Read(aBytes+iOffset, iByteCount-iOffset);
         ASSERT(iRc >= 0 || iRc == FILE_EOF);
         iOffset += iRc;
       }

</pre>

=== libdvbpsi ===

Use [http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/libdvbpsi/0.1.4 libdvbpsi3-0.1.4].
Later versions have incompatible API changes.

=== Dependency Errors ===

This error indicates that Makefile.dep and Makefile.module.dep need to have some spare newlines removed. See this forum thread for details: http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=30869

<pre>
root@jan:/usr/src/vls/vls-0.5.6# make
dep/core/application.dpp:1: *** missing separator. Stop.
make: *** [dep/core/application.dpp] Error 2
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