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INSTALL file for the Windows XP/Vista/Seven version of VLC media player |
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Running VLC |
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If you are using a binary release from videolan.org or if you have already built |
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VLC (see below), just run 'vlc.exe'. |
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You can also run VLC from a dos command box, in which case you'll be able |
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to use the command line arguments. You can obtain a list of these command |
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line arguments by typing 'vlc --help' or 'vlc --help --advanced'. |
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To store a debug log of the current VLC session, you can use |
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'vlc -vvv --extraintf=logger'. You will end-up with a vlc-log.txt file in |
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your current directory. |
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Additional documentation is available at http://www.videolan.org/doc/ and http://wiki.videolan.org/. |
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Building VLC from the source code |
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If you want to build VLC from sources, you can do it in several ways: |
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- On GNU/Linux, using the mingw32 cross-compiler. |
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This is the preferred method, as this is the one used by VideoLAN to |
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build the official Windows binaries. |
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- natively on Windows, using MSYS+MINGW (www.mingw.org) |
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(MSYS is a minimal build environment to compile Unixish projects under |
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windows. It provides all the common Unix tools like sh, gmake...) |
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UNSUPPORTED METHOD |
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- natively on Windows, using cygwin (www.cygwin.com) with or without the |
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POSIX emulation layer. |
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Read http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32CompileCygwinNew to have a complete HOWTO |
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Getting the right compiler tools |
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- cross-compiling with mingw32: |
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You first need to download a GNU/Linux cross-compiler version of mingw32. |
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For Debian GNU/Linux users, you can use the gcc-mingw32, mingw32-binutils and |
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mingw32-runtime packages. |
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For Fedora users, you can use mingw-binutils, mingw-gcc-core, mingw-gcc-g++ |
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For MingW and Cygwin, please refer to our Wiki: |
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- http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32CompileMSYS |
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- http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32CompileCygwin |
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Getting the additional libraries |
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VLC depends on many other libraries to provide some features like most of the codecs. |
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Usually, you don't want to compile those by yourself, so use pre-compiled ones. |
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* We also provide a package with all the libraries already compiled so it is |
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actually really easy to compile a full-featured version of vlc (these compiled |
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libraries will only work with mingw or cygwin): |
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http://download.videolan.org/pub/testing/win32/contrib-201xxxxx-win32-bin-gcc-x.x.x-runtime-x.xx.x-only.tar.bz2 |
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(Check out for more recent versions at the same location). |
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All you need to do is extract it in your root directory (the include files |
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and libraries will be put in /usr/win32). You can do this with the following |
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command: |
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tar xjvf contrib-20110614-win32-bin-gcc-4.4.4-runtime-3.15.2-only.tar.bz2 -C / |
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Please note the "-C /". |
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* An automated way of building the contrib libraries is provided in |
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extra/contrib. It will download, configure and build the libraries. |
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See the extras/contrib/README for more info. |
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Configuring the build |
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Once you've got all the files you need in place, you need to configure the |
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build with the `./configure' script. |
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I'll assume that you are using the pre-compiled 3rd party libraries we are |
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providing and that they are in /usr/win32. |
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If you are cross-compiling from Debian, you can use this: |
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sh extras/package/win32/configure-mingw.sh |
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If you are compiling with MSYS/MINGW, then you can use this: |
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sh extras/package/win32/configure-msys.sh |
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If you are using cygwin, you should build VLC without the POSIX emulation layer. |
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Use this: |
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sh extras/package/win32/configure-cygwin.sh |
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See `./configure --help' for more information. |
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Actually Compiling the VLC source |
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Once configured, to build VLC, just run `make'. |
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Once the compilation is done, you can either run VLC directly from the source |
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tree or you can build self-contained VLC packages with the following |
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'make' rules: |
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make package-win-base |
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will create a subdirectory named vlc-x.x.x with all the binaries |
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'stripped' (ie. without any debugging symbols). |
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make package-win32-zip |
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Same as above but will package the directory in a zip file. |
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make package-win32 |
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Same as above but will also create an auto-installer package. You will need |
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to have NSIS installed in its default location for this to work. |
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Well done, now you're ready to use VLC! |
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