<div dir="ltr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">So, now I am compiling it using the second alternative. ( The contrib method )<br>It asked for protobuf-compiler. When I installed it, it is saying <br> Unrecognized syntax identifier "proto3". This parser only recognizes "proto2"<br>but the version installed is 2.6.1-1.3<br>Why is this happening ? What's the solution ?</blockquote><div> </div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">I was able to solve this by installing protobuf 3.x from <a href="https://github.com/google/protobuf">https://github.com/google/protobuf</a></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>P.S: Just to inform, I had to install these packages seperately to overcome the errors in the compilation.(for Ubuntu 16.04)</div><div> gperf (using apt-get)</div><div> ant <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">(using apt-get)</span></div><div> default-jdk <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">(using apt-get)</span></div><div> protobuf 3.x</div><div>* There might be others which I previously installed and were used in the compilation.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 9:03 AM, Kushal K S V S <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kkushal32@gmail.com" target="_blank">kkushal32@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div dir="ltr"><span class="">Hi all,<div>I am Kushal K S V S. I was going through the GSoC 2018 ideas list and found the project 'VLC cryptographic updates' interesting.</div><div>I've worked with 'The FreeType Org' last year under GSoC 2017 program to make a test suite for text rendering. </div><div>I believe I have the necessary skills and the experience required to execute this project. I want to draft a proposal on this idea.</div><div>I could find only limited info about this. I wanted to know where I could get the resources to guide me to start working. </div><div>(Any similar implementations available ? etc)</div><div><br></div><div>I was going through the VLC documentation to compile using the steps on the page (<span> </span><a href="https://wiki.videolan.org/UnixCompile" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://wiki.videolan.org/Un<wbr>ixCompile</a> ). </div><div><br></div><div>When I run the script 'bootstrap', I see the following message.</div><div><br></div><div> NOTE: autopoint (GNU gettext-tools) appears to be missing or out-of-date.</div><div> Please install or update GNU gettext tools.</div><div> Otherwise, you will not be able to build a source tarball.</div><div> ==============================<wbr>==============================<wbr>==============</div><div><br></div><div>I cross-check the installed version and the latest version of 'autopoint' in the ubuntu packages website. I have the latest one installed. (0.19.7-2ubuntu3)</div></span><div>Then why is this warning still there ? I think '--version' option should be there instead. Here is the patch I tested on Ubuntu 16.04 which does the job.</div><div><br></div><div><div><div><div>From b384dea21ac98bb7775612ad01f804<wbr>4668433491 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001</div><div>From: Kushal K S V S <<a href="mailto:kkushal32@gmail.com" target="_blank">kkushal32@gmail.com</a>></div><div>Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 07:45:26 +0530</div><div>Subject: [PATCH] Checking autopoint version correctly</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div>---</div><div> bootstrap | 2 +-</div><div> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)</div><div><br></div><div>diff --git a/bootstrap b/bootstrap</div><div>index 995fee2..e01f3c3 100755</div><div>--- a/bootstrap</div><div>+++ b/bootstrap</div><div>@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ fi</div><div> # Check for autopoint (GNU gettext)</div><div> export AUTOPOINT</div><div> test "$AUTOPOINT" || AUTOPOINT=autopoint</div><div>-if ! "$AUTOPOINT" --dry-run --force >/dev/null 2>&1; then</div><div>+if ! "$AUTOPOINT" --version >/dev/null 2>&1; then</div><div> <span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>AUTOPOINT=true</div><div> <span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>cat << EOF</div><div> NOTE: autopoint (GNU gettext-tools) appears to be missing or out-of-date.</div><div>-- </div><div>2.7.4</div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div>Also in the section 'Get the third-party libraries', in 'The preferred method', when I do <br></div><div><br></div><div> $sudo apt-get build-dep vlc </div><div><br></div><div>this is the output.</div><div><br></div><div><div> Reading package lists... Done</div><div> E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list</div></div><div><br></div><div>My ubuntu is up-to date. What to do now ?</div><div>I think source should be specified in the documentation.</div><div><br></div><div>So, now I am compiling it using the second alternative. ( The contrib method )</div><div>It asked for protobuf-compiler. When I installed it, it is saying </div><div><br></div><div> Unrecognized syntax identifier "proto3". This parser only recognizes "proto2"</div><div><br></div><div>but the version installed is 2.6.1-1.3</div><div>Why is this happening ? What's the solution ?</div><div><br></div><div>I was also looking into the project 'libVLC AirPlay support'. I work on a MacBook and have a couple of iOS devices.</div><div>Don't we need Apple TV/any AirPlay-enabled hardware to receive the signal ? Or can we make any computer do this ?</div><div>AFAIK there are services like AirServer that do this. What's the best possible solution for this ? (which isn't costly :P )</div><div><br></div><div>Thank You.</div><div><br></div><div>P.S: I love VLC and it would be an honour work on projects that are so far-reaching.</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">P.P.S: I'm sorry if this mail is received twice. Didn't subscribe to the list the first time. (Couldn't find it in archives)</span><br></div>
</blockquote></div><br></div>