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Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - dreamnid

dreamnid — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:02:09 -0700

For those having problems with yasm not being detected, when running the configure w/ the x264: refer to http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread....

Essentially, the yasm package in the repo is too old, so you have to compile your own.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - worthless

worthless — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 04:37:29 -0700

Hi,

Thank you for a good howto. I had some exciting problems to work around I thought I'd share.

Ocram: yasm didn't work for me either, so I removed it and installed nasm instead -- worked fine.

apt-get build-dep vlc did not work for me because of a dependency bug on libsound2-dev vs. libsound2 (and it gives the extremely descriptive error message: "Build-dependencies for vlc could not be satisfied."). If you get this problem "apt-cache showsrc vlc" will show you the actual dependencies, and trying them showed that libsound2-dev required a specific (slightly older) version of libsound2, so i downgraded to that one with apt-get install libsound2=<version>.

The version of liveMedia in Ubuntu was too old, had to get a new one from www.live555.com/liveMedia , compile it in extras and supply configure with --with-live555-tree=../extras/live

The version of speex in Ubuntu was too old, had to get a new one from www.speex.org , compile it in extras and supply configure with --with-speex-tree=../extras/live

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - Hackeron

Hackeron — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:13:34 -0700

I'm getting:

/usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libx264.a(cabac-a.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `x264_cabac_range_lps' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/local/lib/libx264.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[5]: *** [libx264_plugin.la] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory `/root/fusecctv-dist/dist/multimedia/vlc/build/modules/codec'
make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/root/fusecctv-dist/dist/multimedia/vlc/build/modules/codec'
make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/fusecctv-dist/dist/multimedia/vlc/build/modules/codec'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/fusecctv-dist/dist/multimedia/vlc/build/modules'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/fusecctv-dist/dist/multimedia/vlc/build'
make: *** [all] Error 2

I tried recompiling x264 with -fPIC -- didn't help

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - JBK

JBK — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:43:00 -0700

Giulia, mail me in private the messages. :D

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - giulia

giulia — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:33:35 -0700

Hi
vlc was working for me in ubuntu 7. Since I updated to 8 it plays the MOV files but with no sound. I followed your instructions and everything worked fine, but still no sound... Any idea ? thanks !
giulia

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - Hector

Hector — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:03:16 -0700

Need to add extra apt source?
Why i failed to fetch dependences?
hector@hector-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get build-dep vlc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Build-dependencies for vlc could not be satisfied.

Here is my apt list:
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid Release.gpg
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://playonlinux.botux.net hardy Release.gpg
Ign http://playonlinux.botux.net hardy/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy Release.gpg
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Translation-en_US
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid Release [27.6kB]
Hit http://playonlinux.botux.net hardy Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy Release.gpg
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Translation-en_US
Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy Release [27.6kB]
Ign http://playonlinux.botux.net hardy/main Packages
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security Release.gpg
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/universe Translation-en_US
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy Release.gpg
Ign http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy/free Translation-en_US
Hit http://playonlinux.botux.net hardy/main Packages
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates Release.gpg
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy/non-free Translation-en_US
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy Release
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed Release.gpg
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/restricted Translation-en_US
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy/free Packages
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/multiverse Translation-en_US
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy/non-free Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security Release
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid/main Packages
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed Release
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports Release [44.0kB]
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Packages
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Sources
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid/main Packages
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid/main Sources
Get:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Packages [6591B]
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/restricted Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/restricted Packages
Get:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Sources [1630B]
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/universe Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/multiverse Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/restricted Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/universe Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/multiverse Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/restricted Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/universe Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/multiverse Sources
Get:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/main Packages [53.0kB]
Get:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/restricted Packages [14B]
Get:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/universe Packages [21.2kB]
Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/multiverse Packages [3012B]
Get:11 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/main Sources [7804B]
Get:12 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/restricted Sources [14B]
Get:13 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/universe Sources [6515B]
Get:14 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/multiverse Sources [1237B]

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - Ocram

Ocram — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:05:00 -0700

I have problems with compiling the x264.

# cd extras/
# git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /afs1/uploads/vlc/extras/x264/.git/
remote: Generating pack...
remote: Done counting 6158 objects.
remote: Deltifying 6158 objects...
remote: 100% (6158/6158) done
remote: Total 6158 (delta 4870), reused 0 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (6158/6158), 1.51 MiB | 636 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (4870/4870), done.
# cd x264/

# make
Makefile:3: config.mak: No such file or directory
./configure
No suitable assembler found. Install 'yasm' to get MMX/SSE optimized code.
If you really want to compile without asm, configure with --disable-asm.
make: *** [config.mak] Error 1

I have yasm installed:

type yasm
yasm is a tracked alias for /usr/bin/yasm

Build vlc under a fresh sid - Dros

Dros — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:20:33 -0700

The option enable-pp is now unknown because it has been renamed, you must use enable-postproc

just FYI

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - aef110

aef110 — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:52:30 -0700

Thanks; I tried again and it compiled successfully this time!

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - JBK

JBK — Sun, 25 May 2008 20:03:13 -0700

Try to reconfigure and make clean.

This shouldn't happen in GIt HEAD.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - aef110

aef110 — Sat, 24 May 2008 06:19:17 -0700

After much trial and error I had to copy the ffmpeg folder from my 7.10 install to 8.04. Then I was able to compile vlc.

However, 'make' returns the following output:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lvlccore
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
libtool: install: error: relink `libvlc.la' with the above command before installing it
make[4]: *** [install-libLTLIBRARIES] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/albert/vlc/build/src'
make[3]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/albert/vlc/build/src'
make[2]: *** [install] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/albert/vlc/build/src'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/albert/vlc/build'
make: *** [install] Error 2

I'm stuck now and would be grateful for help. Many thanks in advance!

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - JBK

JBK — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:21:18 -0700

Yes, you can. Use all the caching options.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - Alexandre Gontijo Rabelo

Alexandre Gontijo Rabelo — Tue, 20 May 2008 19:00:50 -0700

So, Can I change the size buffer of the MPEG 4 transmission in the source code? Or, is possible change in the configuration of the program without recompile?

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - dionysos23

dionysos23 — Sat, 17 May 2008 06:41:57 -0700

Thanks for the HowTo. The tree for ffmpeg did not work for me either, I had to do it like ECN above....

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - JBK

JBK — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:17:11 -0700

I am interesting in how to reproduce that bug. Please share it!

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - sasch

sasch — Wed, 07 May 2008 09:34:50 -0700

Hi Jean-Baptiste,
i have compiled it. But when i start the playlist vlc abortet. Over the terminal this comes:

ASSERT: "logicalIndex >= 0" in file itemviews/qheaderview.cpp, line 1215
Aborted

Greets from Hamburg
Sasch

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - ECN

ECN — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:08:42 -0700

In order to compile it without errors I had to take out the tree- specifiction for instance:

--with-ffmpeg-tree=../extras/ffmpeg

../configure --prefix=/usr --enable-snapshot --enable-debug --enable-dbus-control --enable-musicbrainz --enable-shared-libvlc --enable-mozilla --enable-lirc --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

And then it went ok, is it normal?

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - TK

TK — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:36:10 -0700

Thank you, seemed to have worked just fine.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - JBK

JBK — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:04:12 -0700

Give me MORE details if you want help.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - spud

spud — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:14:58 -0700

ffmpeg is not being seen and I can mot cinfigure it in the eXtras folder a how to for ffmpeg is a MUSTit was in your fist post on 7.04 followed it but it will not config

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - spud

spud — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:42:09 -0700

this did not work for me followed the steps all the way to the end.when I ran the make command said no make file stop any ideas what went wrong

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - will

will — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:02:13 -0700

p.s. would you consider posting this on the ubuntu forums? I looked for a long time and was never successful at getting a working install before this. It certainly does not work over the network when you just use the synaptic to install

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - will

will — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:57:25 -0700

I can't thank you enough for this post. Before following these instructions every time i went to play anything over my network including dvr.ms f iles it was choppy to the point of being unwatchable. The only thing that did not work for me was the final % make command. but everything seems to working despite that.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - JBK

JBK — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:53:34 -0700

Yes, x264 and VLC moved to Git.

The HowTo should be good.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - mariuz

mariuz — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:30:04 -0700

sorry for the above post

ok now is fixed i compiled on hardy and all went ok

http://mapopa.blogspot.com/2008/04/...

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - mariuz

mariuz — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:19:12 -0700

i have the same problem with compiling on hardy

dget -x http://nightlies.videolan.org/build...
then doing the
debuild -i

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - mariuz

mariuz — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:16:46 -0700

x264 is moved to git seems
so replace the svn checkout with this

git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264.git

Howto build VLC on Windows on a fresh Windows - JBK

JBK — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:59:50 -0700

Not yet, because I have never compiled them so far... I will try when I have time.

Which means, not very soon.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - quentusrex

quentusrex — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:26:57 -0700

I get the following errors even though I configured ffmpeg to build shared libs:

/usr/share/svn/vlc/extras/ffmpeg/libavutil/mem.h:45:27: warning: "__GNU__" is not defined
/usr/share/svn/vlc/extras/ffmpeg/libavutil/mem.h:45:42: warning: "__GNU__" is not defined
/usr/share/svn/vlc/extras/ffmpeg/libavutil/mem.h:51:27: warning: "__GNU__" is not defined
/usr/share/svn/vlc/extras/ffmpeg/libavutil/mem.h:51:42: warning: "__GNU__" is not defined
/bin/sh ../../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -std=gnu99 -Wall -Wextra -Wsign-compare -Wundef -Wpointer-arith -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wmissing-prototypes -Wvolatile-register-var -rpath '/usr/lib/vlc/codec' -avoid-version -module -no-undefined -shrext .so -export-dynamic -o libffmpeg_plugin.la -rpath '/usr/lib/vlc/codec' -avoid-version -module -no-undefined -shrext .so -export-dynamic `top_builddir="../../.." ../../../vlc-config --ldflags plugin ffmpeg` libffmpeg_plugin_la-ffmpeg.lo libffmpeg_plugin_la-video.lo libffmpeg_plugin_la-audio.lo libffmpeg_plugin_la-video_filter.lo libffmpeg_plugin_la-deinterlace.lo libffmpeg_plugin_la-chroma.lo libffmpeg_plugin_la-encoder.lo libffmpeg_plugin_la-postprocess.lo libffmpeg_plugin_la-demux.lo libffmpeg_plugin_la-mux.lo libffmpeg_plugin_la-scale.lo ../../../src/libvlc.la `top_builddir="../../.." ../../../vlc-config -libs plugin ffmpeg`

*** Warning: Linking the shared library libffmpeg_plugin.la against the
*** static library /usr/share/svn/vlc/extras/ffmpeg/libavformat/libavformat.a is not portable!

*** Warning: Linking the shared library libffmpeg_plugin.la against the
*** static library /usr/share/svn/vlc/extras/ffmpeg/libavcodec/libavcodec.a is not portable!

*** Warning: Linking the shared library libffmpeg_plugin.la against the
*** static library /usr/share/svn/vlc/extras/ffmpeg/libavutil/libavutil.a is not portable!

*** Warning: Linking the shared library libffmpeg_plugin.la against the
*** static library /usr/share/svn/vlc/extras/ffmpeg/libpostproc/libpostproc.a is not portable!
gcc -std=gnu99 -shared .libs/libffmpeg_plugin_la-ffmpeg.o .libs/libffmpeg_plugin_la-video.o .libs/libffmpeg_plugin_la-audio.o .libs/libffmpeg_plugin_la-video_filter.o .libs/libffmpeg_plugin_la-deinterlace.o .libs/libffmpeg_plugin_la-chroma.o .libs/libffmpeg_plugin_la-encoder.o .libs/libffmpeg_plugin_la-postprocess.o .libs/libffmpeg_plugin_la-demux.o .libs/libffmpeg_plugin_la-mux.o .libs/libffmpeg_plugin_la-scale.o -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/share/svn/vlc/build/src/.libs ../../../src/.libs/libvlc.so -lpthread /usr/share/svn/vlc/extras/ffmpeg/libavformat/libavformat.a /usr/share/svn/vlc/extras/ffmpeg/libavcodec/libavcodec.a /usr/share/svn/vlc/extras/ffmpeg/libavutil/libavutil.a -lz -ldl -L/usr/share/svn/vlc/extras/ffmpeg/libpostproc /usr/share/svn/vlc/extras/ffmpeg/libpostproc/libpostproc.a -lm -Wl,-z -Wl,defs -Wl,-soname -Wl,libffmpeg_plugin.so -o .libs/libffmpeg_plugin.so
.libs/libffmpeg_plugin_la-scale.o: In function `CloseScaler__0_9_0j':
scale.c:(.text+0x1f): undefined reference to `sws_freeFilter'
.libs/libffmpeg_plugin_la-scale.o: In function `OpenScaler__0_9_0j':
scale.c:(.text+0x698): undefined reference to `sws_getDefaultFilter'
scale.c:(.text+0x9f1): undefined reference to `sws_freeFilter'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/share/svn/vlc/extras/ffmpeg/libavcodec/libavcodec.a(dsputil_mmx.o): relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against `ff_pw_20' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[6]: *** [libffmpeg_plugin.la] Error 1
make[6]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/svn/vlc/build/modules/codec/ffmpeg'
make[5]: *** [all-modules] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/svn/vlc/build/modules/codec/ffmpeg'
make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/svn/vlc/build/modules/codec'
make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/svn/vlc/build/modules/codec'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/svn/vlc/build/modules'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/svn/vlc/build'
make: *** [all] Error 2

ffmpeg configure:
./configure --enable-shared --enable-postproc --enable-gpl --extra-cflags='-fPIC -DPIC'

vlc configure:
../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-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 --disable-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

Howto build VLC on Windows on a fresh Windows - gakkor

gakkor — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:57:27 -0700

Hi Jean-Baptiste,
Thank you for the updated HOW-TO. Are there any plans to include compiling Python bindings for Windows as part of this HOW-TO? I tried enabling the option to build it on CYGWIN, but it fails because libvcl_tag_t is undefined in vlc_mediadescriptor.c
Thanks,

Howto build VLC on Windows on a fresh Windows - JBK

JBK — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:25:38 -0700

--disable-mkv should work for you

Howto build VLC on Windows on a fresh Windows - Suds

Suds — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:09:57 -0700

Hi :
I follow the guide to compile VLC .
but stopped at build libmkv_plugin .
there are some link error such as:
/usr/win32/lib/libebml.a(MemIOCallback.o):MemIOCallback.cpp:(.text+0x33c): undef
ined reference to `std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits<char> >& std::__ost
ream_insert<char, std::char_traits<char> >(std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_tr
aits<char> >&, char const*, int)'
/usr/win32/lib/libebml.a(MemIOCallback.o):MemIOCallback.cpp:(.text+0xd5c): undef
ined reference to `std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits<char> >& std::__ost
ream_insert<char, std::char_traits<char> >(std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_tr
aits<char> >&, char const*, int)'

I am using contrib contrib-20080308-win32-bin-gcc-4.2.1-sjlj-runtime-3.13-only.tar.bz2

Build vlc under a fresh sid - avisx

avisx — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:20:49 -0700

please, remove the other message, and read this:

http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic...

sorry and thanks :P

Build vlc under a fresh sid - avisx

avisx — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:47:28 -0700

hi!!

i follow the howto step by step, but when i compile send this error:

gcc -std=gnu99 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../../src -DSYS_LINUX -I../../include -I../include -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D__USE_UNIX98 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT -D_THREAD_SAFE -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -DPLUGIN_PATH=\"/usr/lib/vlc\" -DDEBUG -D__LIBVLC__ -I../src/misc -g -O2 -ffast-math -funroll-loops -mtune=pentium2 -DDBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE -I/usr/include/hal -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/include -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/include -fvisibility=hidden -DDATA_PATH=\"/usr/share/vlc\" -Wall -Wextra -Wsign-compare -Wundef -Wpointer-arith -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wmissing-prototypes -Wvolatile-register-var -MT text/libvlc_la-iso_lang.lo -MD -MP -MF text/.deps/libvlc_la-iso_lang.Tpo -c ../../src/text/iso_lang.c -fPIC -DPIC -o text/.libs/libvlc_la-iso_lang.o
In file included from ../../include/vlc_common.h:1062,
from ../../include/vlc/vlc.h:155,
from ../../src/text/iso_lang.c:34:
../../include/vlc_threads_funcs.h:550: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'pthread_spinlock_t'
../../include/vlc_threads_funcs.h: In function 'vlc_spin_init':
../../include/vlc_threads_funcs.h:558: warning: implicit declaration of function 'pthread_spin_init'
../../include/vlc_threads_funcs.h:558: error: 'vlc_spinlock_t' has no member named 'spin'
../../include/vlc_threads_funcs.h: In function 'vlc_spin_lock':
../../include/vlc_threads_funcs.h:566: warning: implicit declaration of function 'pthread_spin_lock'
../../include/vlc_threads_funcs.h:566: error: 'vlc_spinlock_t' has no member named 'spin'
../../include/vlc_threads_funcs.h: In function 'vlc_spin_unlock':
../../include/vlc_threads_funcs.h:575: warning: implicit declaration of function 'pthread_spin_unlock'
../../include/vlc_threads_funcs.h:575: error: 'vlc_spinlock_t' has no member named 'spin'
../../include/vlc_threads_funcs.h: In function 'vlc_spin_destroy':
../../include/vlc_threads_funcs.h:584: warning: implicit declaration of function 'pthread_spin_destroy'
../../include/vlc_threads_funcs.h:584: error: 'vlc_spinlock_t' has no member named 'spin'
make[3]: *** [text/libvlc_la-iso_lang.lo] Error 1
make[3]: se sale del directorio `/usr/local/src/vlc-trunk/linux/src'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: se sale del directorio `/usr/local/src/vlc-trunk/linux/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: se sale del directorio `/usr/local/src/vlc-trunk/linux'
make: *** [all] Error 2

please, help me!!

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:04:32 -0800

apt-get install libdc1394-dev and libraw1394-dev

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - Hongquan

Hongquan — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:15:21 -0800

Hi ,
I am new to linux and building vlc under Ubuntu 7.10 server edition.
when I use configure to process the source code and found an error:"can't find libraw1394 header "
so I delete the configure --enable-dc1394 .but the erro is still there .
could you tell me how to disable configure to check the 1394 header .thank you very much !

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - Packrat

Packrat — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:29:14 -0800

the last ..configure does not work for me. I get

../configure: No such file or directory

I have cvs installed and am in the ~/vlc/build$ directory

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - ypctx

ypctx — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:56:31 -0800

@59: if that is a reaction to my comment, then my answer is:
I want VLC with S/PDIF working on Ubuntu Feisty 64-bit.
S/PDIF was fixed for version 0.8.6d, which will be not released for Feisty, unless it will be followed by a security update. Security is the only reason Ubuntu upgrades packages.
So, logically, I need to compile VLC from sources, (that's how I've found this Blog) which I yet wasn't able to do for my 64-bit system.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - ypctx

ypctx — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:50:35 -0800

@58: sorry, I got confused by the fact that my comments first appeared, and then dissapeared.
In any way, you of course have the right to moderate your blog's comments. I just didn't like the fact that a possible solution got deleted..

Basically - Debian or Ubuntu maintainers make some changes on the VLC sources, after which it's possible to compile and link them on a 64-bit Linux system.

The Hardy source VLC package I've rebuilt for Gutsy has the problem of randomly losing sound for about 1 second, every so often, ie. once in 1 to 5 minutes.
I'm using S/PDIF, ALSA, IEC958 via HDA Nvidia on 2.6.23.14 kernel. The S/PDIF passthrough output in Xfmedia works fine, so it must be a problem of the VLC package.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 12:48:56 -0800

What YOU suggest doesn't build VLC 0.9x, but 0.8.6d, which is completely useless.

If you want to develop something, use the trunk (0.9.0)

If you want to test the trunk and next version, use the trunk (0.9.0)

Else, use the packages... Don't build it. this is useless.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 12:45:20 -0800

I don't remove any comment, I just moderate them.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - ypctx

ypctx — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 08:04:58 -0800

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread....

may you live forever, my french friend.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - ypctx

ypctx — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:39:59 -0800

hi, why did you remove my comment? i think many people who come here just want to get the latest VLC working, which doesnt have to be the SVN version... and I really could not get it working on the 64-bit in any other way, than the one I posted..

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - ypctx

ypctx — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:55:30 -0800

On Feisty 64-bit, the above didn't work for me.. But got around it:) Here's how:

1. install these dev packages: (see the above VLC building guide to get the other necessary packages)

apt-get install libdvdread-dev libmad0-dev liba52-0.7.4-dev libdts-dev libgsm1-dev libogg-dev libraw1394-dev libtheora-dev libvorbis-dev zlib1g-dev libdc1394-13-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libpostproc-dev libmpeg2-4-dev libwxbase2.8-dev libwxgtk2.8-dev libportaudio-dev libdvdcss2-dev libmp4v2-dev libfaac-dev liblame-dev libavc1394-dev libfaad2-dev libtwolame-dev libasound2-dev lib32asound2-dev x11proto-core-dev libice-dev libsm-dev libxau-dev libxdmcp-dev x11proto-input-dev x11proto-kb-dev xtrans-dev libx11-dev x11proto-render-dev libxrender-dev x11proto-xext-dev x11proto-fixes-dev libxfixes-dev libxcursor-dev libxext-dev libexpat1-dev libfreetype6-dev libfontconfig1-dev libxft-dev libxi-dev x11proto-xinerama-dev libxinerama-dev x11proto-randr-dev libxrandr-dev libxt-dev x11proto-video-dev libxv-dev libnspr-dev libnss-dev firefox-dev libslang2-dev libncurses5-dev libaa1-dev libartsc0-dev libaudio-dev libaudiofile-dev libesd0-dev libxmu-dev libjpeg62-dev liblcms1-dev libmng-dev libpng12-dev libgpg-error-dev libgcrypt11-dev libtasn1-3-dev libpopt-dev libopencdk8-dev liblzo-dev libgnutls-dev libcupsys2-dev mesa-common-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev qt3-dev-tools libqt3-mt-dev libarts1-dev libatk1.0-dev libavahi-common-dev libdbus-1-dev libavahi-client-dev libcucul-dev libcaca-dev libcairo2-dev libcdio-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libdirectfb-dev libdvbpsi4-dev libdvdnav-dev libebml-dev libflac-dev libfribidi-dev libgii1-dev libggi2-dev libpango1.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libhal-dev libid3tag0-dev libtiff4-dev libungif4-dev libltdl3-dev libimlib2-dev libiso9660-dev liblivemedia-dev libmatroska-dev libmodplug-dev libmpcdec-dev libnotify-dev libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libspeex-dev libtar-dev libvcdinfo-dev libwxbase2.6-dev libwxgtk2.6-dev libxml2-dev libxosd-dev xlibmesa-gl-dev liblircclient-dev libsmbclient-dev libsysfs-dev libjack0.100.0-dev libssl-dev comerr-dev libkrb5-dev libpq-dev libsqlite0-dev libqt4-dev libxpm-dev x11proto-xf86dga-dev libxxf86dga-dev x11proto-xf86misc-dev libxxf86misc-dev x11proto-xf86vidmode-dev libxxf86vm-dev

2. go to: http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/gr...
At the bottom of the page, in the line beginning with "Source Package:", there are 3 links: dsc, .tar.gz and .diff.gz -- download these into a new directory.

3. cd to the directory you created, and do:
dpkg-source -x *.dsc

4. cd to the directory created by the previous command, and do:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

5. cd .. and do:
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

You should have the latest VLC installed on your system now.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - aef110

aef110 — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:07:28 -0800

How do I add a launcher to the Ubuntu menu for the compiled version? I've tried several variations of the following:

%f //home/albert/vlc/build/./vlc

Clearly, there's some incorrect syntax, as nothing happens. However, when I navigate to that directory in a terminal and type ./vlc it works.

Many thanks in advance.

P.S. I noticed another user asked the same question and was replied to privately. I please request that answer to be posted on this blog for the benefit of fellow new users!

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - jpsaman

jpsaman — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:15:32 -0800

I put up a script at http://paste.videolan.org/2964 that install all runtime dependencies of vlc. The same could be done for the dev libs. Maybe it is usefull for your tutorial.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - James

James — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 04:23:49 -0800

Hi there,
This worked first time on Gutsy with the rt kernel... What an excellent guide: thanks very much!
James

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:35:01 -0800

@jpsaman: you are right, this is incomplete, the sid version is more up to date.

I'll update it when I install a new ubuntu...

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - jpsaman

jpsaman — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 06:44:14 -0800

The tutorial is incomplete and lacks installation of a52dec, libmad, libid3tag and much more useful features people would like to use on Feisty. Almost all these 3rd party libraries we as developers would like to install can be found on www.medibuntu.org in their repository.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - jpsaman

jpsaman — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 06:40:16 -0800

There is a bug in your configure line, you both specify --disable-cddax --disable-vcdx and --enable-cddax --enable-vcdx. One or the other is enough.

I suspect you wanted them disabled.

Build vlc under a fresh sid - juju

juju — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:30:51 +0100

ce serait possible de nous indiquer comment combiler avec le support AMR stp ? j'aimerai streamer du 3GP merci

Build vlc under a fresh sid - meerab

meerab — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 13:09:51 +0100

i like it

Build vlc under a fresh sid - Juju

Juju — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:36:26 +0100

Il faut aussi faire
apt-get install automake libtool cvs
pour ceux comme moi qui n'ont pas l'habitude de compiler.

Merci en tous cas pour le résumé ca faisait un moment que je cherchais

Build vlc under a fresh sid - aLtgLasS

aLtgLasS — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:21:44 +0100

Very good guide although I had to install further packages about which bootstrap complained.
Under Ubuntu one must also not use libportaudio-dev but rather portaudio19-dev otherwise make fails on portaudio.c

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:20:58 +0100

Do you have llibgcrypt-dev installed ?

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - Niko

Niko — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:00:55 +0100

Hi, I'm getting this kind of error (the last lines when running configure):
checking for gcry_control in -lgcrypt... yes
../configure: line 72977: syntax error near unexpected token `1:1.1.94,'
../configure: line 72977: ` AM_PATH_LIBGCRYPT(1:1.1.94, have_libgcrypt="yes", have_libgcrypt="no")'

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - Ion

Ion — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:49:17 +0200

Hi again I found the error , I updated from feisty and package libpthread-dev was a old package, so I delete it and installed libpthread-stubs0-dev from Gutsy repository, after this compilation works fine.
Hope this help someone with the same problem.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - Ion

Ion — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:07:42 +0200

HI !
good how to , but on my computer with ubuntu gutsy 7.10 it did not work, when I do first make (on x264 package) i have the following errors :

/usr/include/pthread.h:285: error: conflicting types for ‘pthread_t’
/usr/include/bits/pthreadtypes.h:36: error: previous declaration of ‘pthread_t’ was here
/usr/include/pthread.h:286: error: conflicting types for ‘pthread_attr_t’
/usr/include/bits/pthreadtypes.h:43: error: previous declaration of ‘pthread_attr_t’ was here
/usr/include/pthread.h:287: error: conflicting types for ‘pthread_key_t’
/usr/include/bits/pthreadtypes.h:109: error: previous declaration of ‘pthread_key_t’ was here
/usr/include/pthread.h:289: error: conflicting types for ‘pthread_mutexattr_t’
/usr/include/bits/pthreadtypes.h:79: error: previous declaration of ‘pthread_mutexattr_t’ was here
/usr/include/pthread.h:290: error: conflicting types for ‘pthread_mutex_t’
/usr/include/bits/pthreadtypes.h:73: error: previous declaration of ‘pthread_mutex_t’ was here
/usr/include/pthread.h:291: error: conflicting types for ‘pthread_condattr_t’
/usr/include/bits/pthreadtypes.h:105: error: previous declaration of ‘pthread_condattr_t’ was here
/usr/include/pthread.h:292: error: conflicting types for ‘pthread_cond_t’
/usr/include/bits/pthreadtypes.h:99: error: previous declaration of ‘pthread_cond_t’ was here
/usr/include/pthread.h:293: error: conflicting types for ‘pthread_rwlockattr_t’
/usr/include/bits/pthreadtypes.h:142: error: previous declaration of ‘pthread_rwlockattr_t’ was here
/usr/include/pthread.h:294: error: conflicting types for ‘pthread_rwlock_t’
/usr/include/bits/pthreadtypes.h:136: error: previous declaration of ‘pthread_rwlock_t’ was here
/usr/include/pthread.h:357: error: conflicting types for ‘pthread_kill’
/usr/include/bits/sigthread.h:36: error: previous declaration of ‘pthread_kill’ was here
make: *** [x264.o] Error 1
Help please!!
Thanks in advance.

Build vlc under a fresh sid - rayabaa

rayabaa — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:03:42 +0200

HI,
I am sorry that I am asking question except nice comment.

When I install VLC, I followed your tip.
But , I could not install VLC with x264, .... have you any idea following case.

-------

1. I could not compile with x264 encoder. Without to include x264 tree, I can compile.
I did configure with "enable-x264" and "--with-x264-tree" option.
I compiled current version of x264 in the "extras" of vlc main folder.
But I had following error messega:

==========
./configure --enable-snapshot --enable-debug --enable-dbus-control --enable-shared --enable-lirc --with-x509-ca-bundle=/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt --with-live555-tree=/usr/lib/live --with-ffmpeg-tree=../extras/ffmpeg --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-faac --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 --disable-xvmc --enable-pvr --enable-loader --enable-python-bindings --enable-audioscrobbler --enable-libcddb --enable-libcdio --enable-opencv --enable-nls --disable-notify --with-libmpeg2-tree=../extras/mpeg2dec-0.4.1 --disable-speex --disable-lua --disable-fluidsynth --disable-gnutls --disable-avahi-client --enable-old-dbus --with-included-gettext --enable-skins2 --enable-wxwidgets --enable-x264 --with-x264-tree=../extras/x264/

......
......

checking png.h presence... yes
checking for png.h... yes
checking for png_set_rows in -lpng... yes
checking for x264.h in /usr/local/src/vlc-trunk/extras/x264... yes
checking for x264_encoder_open in -lx264... no
configure: error: the specified tree hasn't been compiled

I found follwoing error message from config.log :

configure:58065: checking for x264.h in /usr/local/src/vlc-trunk/extras/x264
configure:58069: result: yes
configure:58084: checking for x264_encoder_open in -lx264
configure:58114: gcc -std=gnu99 -o conftest -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wsign-compare -Wundef -Wpointer-arith -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wmissing-prototypes -DSYS_LINUX -lpthread conftest.c -lx264 >&5
conftest.c:40:1: warning: "_GNU_SOURCE" redefined
conftest.c:10:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
/usr/local/lib/libx264.a(encoder.o)(.text+0xd95): In function `x264_encoder_open':
: undefined reference to `pow'
/usr/local/lib/libx264.a(encoder.o)(.text+0xeda): In function `x264_encoder_open':
: undefined reference to `pow'
/usr/local/lib/libx264.a(encoder.o)(.text+0xfb8): In function `x264_encoder_open':
: undefined reference to `pow'
/usr/local/lib/libx264.a(encoder.o)(.text+0x1026): In function `x264_encoder_open':
: undefined reference to `pow'
/usr/local/lib/libx264.a(ratecontrol.o)(.text+0x5e): In function `qscale2bits':
: undefined reference to `pow'
/usr/local/lib/libx264.a(ratecontrol.o)(.text+0x14d): more undefined references to `pow' follow
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

==========

2. I got warning message on "avahi-client". I did "--disable-avahi-client", but I got still warning message.
What is the avahi-client ? how can I disable it in my confugure.

=========
checking for avahi-client >= 0.3... Package avahi-client was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `avahi-client.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'avahi-client' found
configure: WARNING: avahi-client library not found
==========

http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic...

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 02:39:39 +0200

I mailed you with the solutions.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - aef110

aef110 — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:22:07 +0200

I'm relatively new to Linux but seem to have followed your detailed instructions without triggering any error messages. I'm on Ubuntu Feisty and believe I've successfully compiled VLC for use with JACK.

However... (stupid newbie question): How do I run it? VLC doesn't appear on the menu, and typing "vlc" in a terminal returns this error:

The program 'vlc' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install vlc-nox
Make sure you have the 'universe' component enabled

Does this mean the compile failed?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - joe

joe — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:02:32 +0200

when running ./configure I had to apt-get alot of lib*-dev files. Configure failed about 6 times with what I needed to install.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - debasish

debasish — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 08:00:48 +0200

Can you give me the full step to build it without gui.

What i mean is since we are doing
apt-get build-dep vlc
it installs lot of things.

I only want to use it as vlc server and only for streaming. Can you let me know the minimum configuration.

Second do i need ffmpeg for using vlc only for server.

Any help would be great.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - d

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:48:58 +0200

what is the advantage in building vlc vis-a-vis installing it the usual way thru apt-get?

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:56:58 +0200

@dragon: you are mistaken. This is done to build and compile VLC, not to install it.

Building and compiling your whole OS would take a lot more time :D

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - dragon

dragon — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 07:55:58 +0200

What a shit this is!!! even my operating system don't take such a long time to install..is this vlc media player or vlc operating system!!!!

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:42:01 +0200

@ManRo: svn up && make should make it work again.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - MaNRo

MaNRo — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:00:47 +0200

I need some help here
Everything went very smooth until I get to the final "make", it just don't seem to wok, this is the last part of the results:

echo "#define Q_(a,b) QString::fromUtf8(_(a))" > ui/sout.h.tmp
/usr/bin/uic-qt4 -tr "Q_" ../../../../modules/gui/qt4/ui/sout.ui >> ui/sout.h.tmp
sed -i -e 's/Q_(\"_(\\\"$.*$\\\")"/Q_("\1"/' ui/sout.h.tmp
mv -f ui/sout.h.tmp ui/sout.h
COMPILE : qt4.cpp
mkdir .libs
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../../modules/gui/qt4 -I../../.. -DSYS_LINUX -I../../../../include -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D__USE_UNIX98 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT -D_THREAD_SAFE -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -DDATA_PATH=\"/usr/share/vlc\" -DPLUGIN_PATH=\"/usr/lib/vlc\" -DDEBUG -O3 -ffast-math -funroll-loops -mtune=pentium2 -D__LIBVLC__ -D__PLUGIN__ -DMODULE_NAME=qt4 -DMODULE_NAME_IS_qt4 -g -DQT_SHARED -I/usr/include/qt4 -I/usr/include/qt4/QtCore -I/usr/include/qt4/QtGui -MT libqt4_plugin_la-qt4.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libqt4_plugin_la-qt4.Tpo -c ../../../../modules/gui/qt4/qt4.cpp -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/libqt4_plugin_la-qt4.o
COMPILE : menus.cpp
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../../modules/gui/qt4 -I../../.. -DSYS_LINUX -I../../../../include -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D__USE_UNIX98 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT -D_THREAD_SAFE -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -DDATA_PATH=\"/usr/share/vlc\" -DPLUGIN_PATH=\"/usr/lib/vlc\" -DDEBUG -O3 -ffast-math -funroll-loops -mtune=pentium2 -D__LIBVLC__ -D__PLUGIN__ -DMODULE_NAME=qt4 -DMODULE_NAME_IS_qt4 -g -DQT_SHARED -I/usr/include/qt4 -I/usr/include/qt4/QtCore -I/usr/include/qt4/QtGui -MT libqt4_plugin_la-menus.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libqt4_plugin_la-menus.Tpo -c ../../../../modules/gui/qt4/menus.cpp -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/libqt4_plugin_la-menus.o
../../../../modules/gui/qt4/menus.cpp: In static member function 'static QMenu* QVLCMenu::SDMenu(intf_thread_t*)':
ERROR : ../../../../modules/gui/qt4/menus.cpp: 444: invalid use of undefined type 'struct module_t'
ERROR : ../../../../include/vlc_common.h: 242: forward declaration of 'struct module_t'
ERROR : ../../../../modules/gui/qt4/menus.cpp: 447: invalid use of undefined type 'struct module_t'
ERROR : ../../../../include/vlc_common.h: 242: forward declaration of 'struct module_t'
ERROR : ../../../../modules/gui/qt4/menus.cpp: 451: invalid use of undefined type 'struct module_t'
ERROR : ../../../../include/vlc_common.h: 242: forward declaration of 'struct module_t'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Thanks for your help!
Regards,

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:16:19 +0200

Recompile x264 with --enable-pic

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - mamut

mamut — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 22:30:13 +0200

I had big troubles at making the last point and i dont know what it means exactly, i installed from a fresh updated feisty.

/bin/bash ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -std=gnu99 -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wsign-compare -Wundef -Wpointer-arith -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wold-style-definition -Wmissing-prototypes -Wvolatile-register-var -rpath '/opt/lib/vlc/codec' -avoid-version -module -no-undefined -shrext .so -export-dynamic -o libx264_plugin.la `top_builddir="../.." ../../vlc-config --libs plugin x264` -rpath '/opt/lib/vlc/codec' -avoid-version -module -no-undefined -shrext .so -export-dynamic libx264_plugin_la-x264.lo -L../../src -lvlc
gcc -std=gnu99 -shared .libs/libx264_plugin_la-x264.o -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/home/abox/vlc-compile/vlc/build/src/.libs -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/opt/lib -L/opt/lib -lpthread -lx264 -L/home/abox/vlc-compile/vlc/extras/x264 -lm /home/abox/vlc-compile/vlc/build/src/.libs/libvlc.so -Wl,-soname -Wl,libx264_plugin.so -o .libs/libx264_plugin.so
/usr/bin/ld: /home/abox/vlc-compile/vlc/extras/x264/libx264.a(common.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC

/usr/bin/ld: /home/abox/vlc-compile/vlc/extras/x264/libx264.a(common.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/home/abox/vlc-compile/vlc/extras/x264/libx264.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[4]: *** [libx264_plugin.la] Error 1

can anybody help me?
thx

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:40:04 +0200

You have to add libjack-dev.
I updated the post for that.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - jack

jack — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 00:06:39 +0200

i get this error
checking for alsa/asoundlib.h... yes
checking for main in -lasound... yes
checking deschutes/libraries/hdmachinex225/PCMAudioPlayer.h usability... no
checking deschutes/libraries/hdmachinex225/PCMAudioPlayer.h presence... no
checking for deschutes/libraries/hdmachinex225/PCMAudioPlayer.h... no
checking jack/jack.h usability... no
checking jack/jack.h presence... no
checking for jack/jack.h... no
configure: error: cannot find JACK headers

when the last ../configure is executed

btw, anyone wishing to share a succesfully compiled .deb (feisty)¿

merci

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - Jason

Jason — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 13:58:25 +0200

Hello,
Thank you for this great guide. I am building it on an x86_64 system. I have gotten to the very end, the last "make" on vlc and I get the following error.

/usr/bin/ld: /home/jason/svn/vlc/extras/x264/libx264.a(common.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/home/jason/svn/vlc/extras/x264/libx264.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[4]: *** [libx264_plugin.la] Error 1

any ideas?

Thanks!

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - Blessed

Blessed — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:33:39 +0200

For me below commands don't work..
svn co svn://svn.videolan.org/vlc/trunk vlc
svn co svn://svn.videolan.org/x264/trunk x264
Whenever i write above command ,for me it says after 3 to 4 minutes
"Can't connect to host 'svn.videolan.org': Connection timed out"
i dont know what is the problem,although i am connected to the internet.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:32:07 +0200

@blessed: the server is up. Are you sure you did not mistake anything ?

@crispy: well, then you downloaded the wrong repository and the wrong files...

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:30:37 +0200

@granjerox: I haven't tested a lot the mozilla plugin, since they change a lot the dependencies those days. Try to install mozilla dev packages like libxul-dev, mozilla-dev and so on.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - crispy

crispy — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:46:04 +0200

At the x264 part i typed in

svn co svn://svn.videolan.org/vlc/trunk x264

instead of

svn co svn://svn.videolan.org/x264/trunk x264

It seems to download and install alot of files tho :D

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - blessed

blessed — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:43:21 +0200

When i try this command it says
'svn co svn://svn.videolan.org/vlc/trunk vlc'
unable to connect the remote host.Is the server address changed.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - Blessed

Blessed — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:55:44 +0200

I tried to install vlc but i ended up at this command,
svn co svn://svn.videolan.org/vlc/trunk vlc
it seems like the address of SVN server is changed or server is down...Is it so?

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - granjerox

granjerox — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:09:32 +0200

while compiling i had lots of errors about
/mozilla/control/npolibvlc.cpp

it says "not defined in this environment"

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - granjerox

granjerox — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:24:46 +0200

I had to install also
sudo apt-get install libjack0.100.0-dev libfaad2-0 libfaad2-dev libtwolame-dev libtwolame0 libqt4-dev

before the ./configure .... could finish properly

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - Ez

Ez — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:19:11 +0200

I also had to install libjack on FF....thanks for the tip NARG.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - Dule

Dule — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:15:16 +0200

@JBK
I have sent you email.
with all my lines after i do last configure so if u could help with that cuz i'm new w/ linux

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:07:48 +0200

@Dule: Your configure did not finished correctly then. Check it or ask on the forum.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - Dule

Dule — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:35:34 +0200

@JBK
Everything worked ok and when in build i type "make" it says:
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
and again i have path: dule@dule-ubuntu:~/vlc/build$

What is problem??

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:16:06 +0200

@Dule: What does it says exactly? Did your configure worked correctly?

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - Dule

Dule — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:10:33 +0200

On Finish
last command make - i can't do.
ANd i did install libfaad2-dev libtwolame-dev libqt4-dev
and made directrorium build and all those commands -and when i want to do "make" it just ain't hapening...

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - Sebastien Dionne

Sebastien Dionne — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:38:24 +0200

merci. je pensais utiliser les extras au lieu d'installer les dépendances.. mais ca sert à rien finalement

j'ai réussi à compiler vlc sans problème après, mais j'ai jamais été capable de faire fonctionner vlc avec sdl. j'ai même laisser des posts sur le forum de vlc, mais aucune réponse encore.

J'essaye dl'utiliser vlc et sdl sous une PS3

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:55:28 +0200

@Ustun: Of course, and debian is a lot better than ubuntu, the question is clear... This post was just about what happen one day, and my Sid was far away.

Also, nightlies are available for Sid, and not for feisty :D

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - Ustun

Ustun — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:06:03 +0200

Almost the same steps can be done on a Debian; however Debian Multimedia reps have to be enabled.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - Axio

Axio — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 12:17:01 +0200

Merci !

Ça fonctionne super bien

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Thu, 31 May 2007 11:07:42 +0200

@Sebastien:

Euh, pourquoi tu as compilé extras/contrib ? Je n'en parle pas du tout dans mon explication. Compiler avec extras/contrib est une autre paire de manche.

Faire ainsi change ton processus de compilation et tu n'en as pas besoin sous ubuntu, quelque soit la plateforme. Et en particulier cela explique ton pb de intl/

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - Sebastien Dionne

Sebastien Dionne — Wed, 30 May 2007 15:10:17 +0200

Bonjour

j'ai essayé de compiler VLC sous Ubuntu pour une PS3. J'ai voulu compiler VLC, car la version que j'avais ne contenait pas les modules SDL. Disons que VLC lag des fois, j'avais le meme probleme avec MPlayer avant que j'utilise sdl.

J'ai downloadé les sources avec SVN et le trunk.

Observation #1 : il y a 3 projets qui compilent pas sous extra/contrib. gnutls, lua, goom2k4. Je les ai mis en commentaire dans le makefile, pour continuer la compilation des autres, et je les ai installé avec apt-get.

#2 : j'ai fait ./bootstrap suivi de ./configure. mais dans le ./configure il y a des problemes, car il ne trouve pas le makefile.in dans /intl. C'est vrai y avait juste le ficheir makefile.am. Le trunk ne contient pas assez de fichier.. meme fait un update.. j'ai downloadé le source de la version 0.86b et ajouter les fichiers manquant dans le rep et j'ai pu compilé le tout.

Observation #3 : une fois compiler j'ai fait ./vlc mais comment je vais pour avoir l'interface graphique ?

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Thu, 24 May 2007 10:36:09 +0200

@visitor: Sorry, I can't, I don't have an Ubuntu right now, I made that post when I was with my father's computer. You should be able to use sid nightlies on feisty, btw.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - visitor

visitor — Thu, 24 May 2007 08:04:56 +0200

Thank you for the instructions. Could you perhaps post of build of vlc? a static deb file would be nice

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - nargle

nargle — Tue, 22 May 2007 12:40:53 +0200

Great guide !

Needed to apt-get install libjack0.100.0-dev to complete final
../configure on my Feisty Fawn install.

Thanks,

Narg

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - yinch

yinch — Sat, 12 May 2007 01:35:11 +0200

YES! installing cvs fixed that. thank you everyone

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - bill

bill — Fri, 11 May 2007 16:04:36 +0200

sudo apt-get install build-essential

that will install everything you need to build stuff

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Fri, 11 May 2007 14:25:59 +0200

Thanks. CVS has been added.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - yinglcs

yinglcs — Thu, 10 May 2007 21:02:23 +0200

I think you need to install 'cvs' on your ubuntu.
It works for me after i install 'cvs.'

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Thu, 10 May 2007 13:30:46 +0200

To both of you: I may have made a mistake in the directory, but I don't think so.

At the end of the cd.. cd.., before to do the build directory (mkdir build), you should be in the vlc directory, the one where you ./bootstrap.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - yinch

yinch — Thu, 10 May 2007 11:49:15 +0200

Thank you for documenting your steps and sharing theses instructions.

I have tried these instructions and all goes well until the final section.

after doing
# apt-get install libfaad2-dev libtwolame-dev libqt4-dev

doing the
%../configure --prefix=/usr ...<snip>... -disable-quicktime

doesn't work - there is no "configure" executable in the directory above the "build" folder (as far as I can tell)

would greatly appreciate any insight you might be able to provide.

yinch'07

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - Taheton

Taheton — Wed, 09 May 2007 15:23:01 +0200

Hi.

If I want to configure vlc I become the error message that configure is not available.

> ../configure: No such file or directory

Any suggestion?

Regards Frank