INSTALL file for the VLC media player ===================================== More extensive information for *nix, Windows and Mac OS X users can be found here: http://wiki.videolan.org/Compile_VLC People installing VLC for Windows from source MUST read: http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32Compile Bootstrapping VLC ================= If you retrieved VLC from the git server and do not have yet a "configure" script, please run: ./bootstrap Configuring VLC =============== A typical way to configure VLC is: ./configure See `./configure --help' for more information. If you intend to debug stuff, you may want to compile with debugging symbols: make distclean ; ./configure --enable-debug We recommend using GCC to build VLC, though some people reported success with the Intel C compiler (version 8) as well. GCC version 4.8 or higher is required. On older systems (e.g. FreeBSD 4.x), please select a more recent version manually by setting the CC and CXX environment variables appropriately while running the ./configure shell script. Building VLC ============ Once configured, run `make' to build VLC. Installing and running VLC ========================== You can install the VLC and its plugins by typing: make install But you don't need to install it if you don't want to; VLC can be launched from the current directory as well: ./vlc Building packages ================= To build a Debian package, you need to get the packaging info git clone git://git.debian.org/pkg-multimedia/vlc.git debian and then git-buildpackage