Yet another blog for JBKempf - Tag - compilation

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04)

JBK — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:49:00 +0100

I found an ubuntu hardy installation, and needed to test something on the trunk of VLC so I needed to compile a VLC for it. Here is a complete HOWTO to do the same !

This post is an update of the popular howto for Build VLC with feisty.

Introduction

So we are going to build the latest VLC possible.

Everything will be done in a console/terminal and should be straight-forward. Every question should be asked on the forum, or in the comments here.

Conventions

Every line beginning with a # should be done as root, or using the sudo command. Every line beginning witha % is a normal line.

Building VLC

Prepare your environment

We need a few package starting from a fresh hardy:

# apt-get install vlc
# apt-get build-dep vlc 
# apt-get install cvs build-essential subversion git git-core automake1.9 libtool
# apt-get install libgcrypt-dev
# apt-get install libfaad-dev libtwolame-dev libqt4-dev libjack-dev 
# apt-get install libxpm-dev libcddb2-dev liblua5.1-0-dev libzvbi-dev libshout-dev

Checkout VLC trunk and bootstrap the tree

% git clone git://git.videolan.org/vlc.git

% cd vlc
% ./bootstrap

Build x264

x264

x264 is a library to encode movies in H.264.

% cd extras/
%
% git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264.git
% cd x264
% make
% sudo make install
% cd ../..

Configure VLC

Configure

 
% mkdir build; cd build;
%../configure --prefix=/usr \
        --enable-snapshot --enable-debug \
        --enable-dbus-control --enable-musicbrainz \
        --enable-shared-libvlc --enable-mozilla \
        --enable-lirc \
        --with-ffmpeg-tree=../extras/ffmpeg \
        --enable-x264 --with-x264-tree=../extras/x264 \
        --enable-shout --enable-taglib \
        --enable-v4l  \
        --enable-dvb  \
        --enable-realrtsp --disable-xvmc \
        --enable-svg   --enable-dvdread \
        --enable-dc1394 --enable-dv \
        --enable-theora --enable-faad \
        --enable-twolame --enable-real \
        --enable-flac --enable-tremor \
        --enable-skins2 --enable-qt4 \
        --enable-ncurses \
        --enable-aa --enable-caca \
        --enable-esd --disable-portaudio \
        --enable-jack --enable-xosd \
        --enable-galaktos --enable-goom \
        --enable-ggi \
        --disable-cddax --disable-vcdx \
       --disable-quicktime --enable-lua

Finish

% make

You just have to wait a bit :D

Howto build VLC on Windows on a fresh Windows

JBK — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:49:00 +0100

Hello to everyone!

Yet again

I already explained how to compile trunk versions of VLC on linux, ubuntu and debian.

I rewrote the howto for Windows, using CYGWIN and put it on our wiki.

Find it here.

VLC: misc and builds

JBK — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:02:00 +0100

Just some miscellaneous news about VLC and build systems:

Tree Cleaning: we decided to clean the tree of all the not really necessaries folder that are around now. See the wiki.

There is some experiments to build VLC using CMake inside the main tree. Checkout the latest VLC to test it.

Windows nightly builds are back after the big changes in the building and in the config.h changes.

New contribs with updated 3rd party libraries are done for windows.

Windows CE and Symbian port are advancing... Not yet released, and ETA is really unknown.

Roadmap are changing, more about that soon.

Building a vlc from scratch in CentOS 5.0/RHEL5

JBK — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:59:00 +0100

Following the HOWTO for debian/sid and ubuntu/feisty, here is a link to an howto, not written by me on how to build for RHEL or Centos 5.0

It is almost accurate, so please read it.

Have a nice week end!

Build vlc under a fresh sid

JBK — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:39:00 +0200

Introduction

So we are going to build the latest VLC possible.

I already did it for ubuntu feisty and it had a huge success. I am going to do the same for debian/sid, which is the distro I use in normal time.

However, some steps did changed, and I compile more options here, because I can :D

Everything will be done in a console/terminal and should be straight-forward. Every question should be asked on the forum, or in the comments here.

Conventions

Every line beginning with a # should be done as root, or using the sudo command. Every line beginning witha % is a normal line.

Building VLC

Prepare your environment

# apt-get build-dep vlc
# apt-get install build-essential subversion tofrodos
# apt-get install portaudio-dev

Checkout it

% svn co svn://jb@svn.videolan.org/vlc/trunk vlc-trunk
% cd vlc-trunk;

Bootstrap it

% ./bootstrap

It has to finish with: Successfully bootstrapped

Build external libraries

x264

x264 is a library to encode movies in H.264.

% cd extras/
%
% svn co svn://svn.videolan.org/x264/trunk x264
% cd x264
% make
% cd ..

faac

faac is a library to encode audio in AAC/MP4A

% wget http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/faac/faac-1.25.tar.gz
% tar xvf faac-1.25.tar.gz
% cd faac
% dos2unix *
% ./bootstrap
% ./configure
% make
# make install
% cd..

Lame

Lame is a library to encode MP3

% wget http://garr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/lame/lame-3.97.tar.gz
% tar xvf lame-3.97.tar.gz
% cd lame-3.97
% ./configure;
% make
# make install
% cd..

ffmpeg

ffmpeg is a multi-codec library

% svn co svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
% cd ffmpeg
% ./configure --enable-gpl --enable-pp \ 
               --enable-pthreads --enable-libmp3lame  \ 
               --enable-libfaac
% make
% cd ../..

live

Live is a streaming library. you'll need it to read some streams.

% wget http://live555.com/liveMedia/public/live555-latest.tar.gz
% tar xvf live555-latest.tar.gz
% cd live555
% ./genMakefiles linux
% make
% cd..

VLC

configure

% mkdir linux;
% cd linux
% ../configure --prefix=/usr --enable-snapshot \
--enable-debug --enable-dbus-control \
--enable-musicbrainz --enable-shared \
--enable-mozilla --enable-lirc \
--with-x509-ca-bundle=/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt \
--with-live555-tree=../extras/live \
--with-ffmpeg-tree=../extras/ffmpeg \
--enable-shout --enable-taglib --enable-v4l \
--enable-cddax --enable-dvb --enable-vcdx \
--enable-realrtsp --enable-svg --enable-dvdread \
--enable-dv --enable-theora --enable-faad \
--enable-twolame --enable-real --enable-flac \
--enable-tremor --with-ffmpeg-mp3lame \
--with-ffmpeg-faac --enable-skins2 --enable-qt4 \
--enable-ncurses --enable-aa --enable-caca \
--enable-esd --enable-portaudio --enable-jack \
--enable-xosd --enable-galaktos --enable-goom \
--enable-ggi --disable-cddax --disable-vcdx \
--disable-dirac --enable-x264 \
--with-x264-tree=../extras/x264 \
--disable-xvmc --enable-wxwidgets \
--enable-lua --enable-pvr --enable-loader \
--enable-python-bindings --enable-audioscrobbler \
--enable-libcddb --enable-libcdio --enable-opencv  \
--enable-nls

build it

% make

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04)

JBK — Sun, 06 May 2007 20:14:00 +0200

I found an ubuntu feisty installation, and needed to test something on the trunk of VLC so I needed to compile a VLC for it. Here is a complete HOWTO to do the same !

Introduction

So we are going to build the latest VLC possible.

Everything will be done in a console/terminal and should be straight-forward. Every question should be asked on the forum, or in the comments here.

Conventions

Every line beginning with a # should be done as root, or using the sudo command. Every line beginning witha % is a normal line.

Building VLC

Prepare your environment

We need a few package starting from a fresh feisty:

# apt-get build-dep vlc 
# apt-get install subversion automake1.9 libtool cvs
# apt-get install libgcrypt-dev

Checkout VLC trunk and bootstrap the tree

% svn co svn://svn.videolan.org/vlc/trunk vlc

% cd vlc
% ./bootstrap

Build ffmpeg and x264

x264

x264 is a library to encode movies in H.264.

% cd extras/
%
% svn co svn://svn.videolan.org/x264/trunk x264
% cd x264
% make
% cd ..

ffmpeg

ffmpeg is a codec library

# apt-get install libfaac-dev liblame-dev

% svn co svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
% cd ffmpeg
% ./configure --enable-gpl --enable-pp \ 
               --enable-pthreads --enable-libmp3lame  \ 
               --enable-libfaac
% make
% cd ..

% cd ..

Configure VLC

More packages

Yet a few package to install :D

# apt-get install libfaad2-dev libtwolame-dev libqt4-dev libjack-dev

Configure

 
% mkdir build; cd build;
%../configure --prefix=/usr \
        --enable-snapshot --enable-debug \
        --enable-dbus-control --enable-musicbrainz \
        --enable-shared-libvlc --enable-mozilla \
        --enable-lirc \
        --with-ffmpeg-tree=../extras/ffmpeg \
        --enable-x264 --with-x264-tree=../extras/x264 \
        --enable-shout --enable-taglib \
        --enable-v4l  \
        --enable-dvb  \
        --enable-realrtsp --disable-xvmc \
        --enable-svg   --enable-dvdread \
        --enable-dc1394 --enable-dv \
        --enable-theora --enable-faad \
        --enable-twolame --enable-real \
        --enable-flac --enable-tremor \
        --with-ffmpeg-mp3lame --with-ffmpeg-faac \
        --enable-skins2 --enable-qt4 \
        --enable-ncurses \
        --enable-aa --enable-caca \
        --enable-esd --disable-portaudio \
        --enable-jack --enable-xosd \
        --enable-galaktos --enable-goom \
        --enable-ggi \
        --disable-cddax --disable-vcdx \
       --disable-quicktime

Finish

% make

You just have to wait a bit :D