Should work fine (ie. better than --enable-shared-libvlc) on Linux,
should work on Mac OS X (except for packaging), while shared libvlc doesn't.
Won't work on Win32 with the current Win32 contrib. Stick to static libvlc or
use --enable-shared-libvlc for now.
so that it is cleanly built before all modules
(step toward buildable shared libvlc on Win32)
- Don't build position dependant code when building shared libvlc
(that was a big waste of time)
- Link builtin modules with vlc rather than libvlc
- Hopefully the same on Darwin
!!! BIG FAT WARNING !!!
On architectures where you need to resolve all symbols when
linking a shared library, libvlc must be built before the plugins, so
that they can resolve symbols from the libvlc API. Also, the "builtins"
must be built before libvlc (regardless of the architecture or use of
shared libvlc). However, our build system currently builds all modules,
whether builtins or plugins, then libvlc and then vlc.
Obviously, we could swap the build orders, so that libvlc gets built
before modules/ but that will only work if there is no buitins modules.
I'm not too keen on the idea of recursing twice within the modules/
subdirectories (once for builtins, and once for plugins). Until the
issue is settled, here is how to build and test the shared libvlc on
Win32:
1/ run configure with --enable-shared-libvlc
2/ build all built-in modules (or disable them all) one by one,
3/ make libvlc.dll
4/ make
I said "experimental". I meant it.
Developers might try --enable-shared-libvlc
- remove autom4te*.cache on bootstrap
(some customized autoconf add their version number)
- some clean up
* Fixed bootstrap to use pkg.m4 from contrib system
* Patches to make libcddb and vcdimager work
(stupid bugs !, how do they compile with this on other system?)
download a precompiled binary package, or to build all the packages
from the sources, at the user's option. It is currently written for
Mac OS X, but could easily be ported to other platforms.
+ Removed a useless use of cut.
+ Do not fail in the "clean" rule if no targets were built.
* Makefile.am:
+ Propagate $(srcdir) to toolbox.
* toolbox:
+ Do not include .moc files in POTFILES.in.
+ Fixed the generation of MSVC project files (untested).
woody package build.
* bootstrap:
+ Remove config.h.in and config.h before running autoheader.
+ Added "set -e" for better error tracking.
+ Call autoheader and automake after autoconf so that the first build does
not need to call autoheader.
* debian/woody-buildpackage:
+ Removed that script and put the code in toolbox.
* debian/control:
+ Added a build-dependency on libmatroska-dev.
* debian/rules:
+ Activated Matroska support.
+ Re-enabled dh_installchangelogs.
+ Disabled a redundant BUILT_SOURCES variable.
* debian/woody-buildpackage:
+ Disable skins for woody (no WxWindows).
+ Do not build a diff since we always use the pristine tarball.
+ Removed the Modules.am generation. To build module/foo/libfoo.so, you
now need to cd modules/foo and make libfoo.so.
+ Workaround for Solaris sed. Which sucks. Did I mention that before?
their LDFLAGS.
* bootstrap: use grep >/dev/null 2>&1 instead of grep -q because of retarded
systems such as our beloved Solaris.
* po/:
+ Regenerated vlc.pot.
+ Updated British translation.
+ Fixed fuzzy entries in the French translation.
+ Forward AM_MAKEFLAGS through recursive makefiles.
+ Removed the plugins and builtins rules. This causes libintl to be built
before the plugins.
* bootstrap:
+ Enabled recursive builds of plugins and builtins.
* vlc-config.in.in:
+ Fixed a typo.
* debian/changelog:
+ Next upload will fix bug #199427.
+ Updated to the latest Debian unstable upload.
* debian/rules:
+ Moved the skins interface into the wxvlc package.
+ Cosmetic fixes.
* debian/control:
+ Updated the description of the wxvlc package.
* bootstrap:
+ Put subdirectories of modules/ in SUBDIRS, not DIST_SUBDIRS.
* Makefile.am:
+ Put modules in SUBDIRS, not DIST_SUBDIRS.
* .cvsignore:
+ Ignore vlc-config.in.
+ New build system, using recursive makefiles. Due to the amount of code
in VLC, this had become unavoidable.
+ Removed the check for OS X's stack size, since our automake targets are
a lot less hungry now.
+ Ditto for Solaris's sed.
+ Since automake-1.6 is faster than 1.7, use it first if both are present.
* m4/vlc.m4:
+ New AX_ADD_CPPFLAGS, AX_ADD_CFLAGS, AX_ADD_CXXFLAGS, AX_ADD_OBJCFLAGS
and AX_ADD_LDFLAGS macros that do all the magic to detect possible
modules and register their flags.
+ New AX_ADD_BUILTINS and AX_ADD_PLUGINS macros.
+ Some magic to generate vlc-config.
* configure.ac:
+ Moved most code to the AX_ADD_* macros.
+ Explicitely added all target Makefiles.
* modules/**/Modules.am:
+ Path to sources are now relative to Modules.am's directory level.
* configure.ac:
+ Added curly braces around variables.
+ Got rid of the "x$foo" constructs.
+ Renamed *_plugin conditionals into *_p.
* debian/changelog:
+ Fixed a duplicate entry.
+ Added an entry for an old Debian upload that fixed#117180.
* debian/control:
+ Added a build dependency on libimlib2-dev for skins.
* debian/rules:
+ Activated support for skins.
* ./modules/access/file.c: the file access plugin gets the real file size
under WinCE.
* ./modules/audio_filter/converter/u8tofixed32.c: added this conversion
filter to play some WAV files without an FPU.
* ./bootstrap: bootstrap --update-vc doesn't rely on the Makefile's presence.
* ./bootstrap: fixed a typo that prevented per-object target directories
to work.
* ./evc/*, ./msvc/*: removed project files; they're becoming a bit large
(more than 1MB) and I don't want to spoil the CVS with them.
using the waveout module.
* ./bootstrap: we ignore comments when parsing makefiles.
* ./modules/audio_filter/converter/fixed32tofloat32.c: changed this module
so that it also does float32tofixed32.
* ./modules/*: ported a few other modules to WinCE (most of the time it's
just a #include <errno.h> that needs to be removed).
functions to plugins.
* ./bootstrap: enhanced the project file generation for plugins; we now
parse makefiles to make this easier.
* ./modules/**/Modules.am: reworked a few makefiles so that they are more
easily parsed.
8 bit string under WinCE.
* ./extras/Win32_msvc: scrapped this directory.
* ./bootstrap: we now parse plugin makefiles to guess what to put in
the MSVC project files. Only the dummy plugin has been tested yet.
it simply outputs a usage message.
* ./src/*: fixed a bunch of (legitimate) warnings under VC++.
* ./evc/*, ./msvc/*: split the workspaces into three projects (libvlc, vlc
and plugins -- plugins doesn't build anything yet).
directory because the two project files are starting to diverge.
* ./evc/vlc.c: created a specific vlc.c file for Windows CE.
* ./src/misc/messages.c: as WinCE doesn't have stdout or stderr, the message
queue outputs to a logfile (until we have a proper interface).
work is still needed for missing functions. I only touched libvlc for
the moment, plugins will come in a long long while.
* ./bootstrap: moved MSVC project files generation here; use --update-msvc.
file from the makefile.
* ./msvc/*: moved the MSVC files here.
* ./src/extras/*: moved the extra code here (used to be in src/misc,
extras/GNUgetopt and extras/Win32_msvc).
* ./include/*: a few warning fixes.
* ./mozilla/npvlc_rc.rc, ./mozilla/vlcplugin.h: added the Ogg mime type to
the Mozilla plugin properties.
* ./debian/control: added libogg-dev and libvorbis-dev dependicies to the
Debian build script.
* ./modules/misc/testsuite/*: moved the null module into three test modules
that are only built when --enable-testsuite is activated. This directory
can be a good place for compilation tests or performance benchmarks.
* ALL : Added a priority argument to vlc_thread_create(), so that audio
and input threads can run with a higher real-time priority, on systems
allowing you to use priorities.
don't seem to work very well if you are using autopoint, although
gettext 0.11.5 claims to be fully backwards compatible. Welcome to
automake hell.
* ./bootstrap: workaround which uses gettextize if you do not have
autopoint. We'll probably stay like this for a while, until gettext
0.11.x (which replaces gettextize with autopoint) becomes more
widespread. Currently this workaround seems to work, but don't expect
a clean tarball if you make dist without having used autopoint. Welcome
to automake hell.
unnoticeable apart from the extra dependency on autoconf, automake and
gettextize. See the new HACKING file for some information, especially if
you don't run Linux.
The current strategy is to have the configure script generate a nice
automake Makefile from Makefile.am, and then clobber it with our good
old dirty Makefile. Muahaha :-)
Rémi Denis-Courmont