[libbdplus-devel] VLC not finding libbdplus after compilation

Wed Dec 3 12:50:19 CET 2014

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I am running Debian Jessie and have VLC 2.2.0-rc2 Weatherwax installed
via APT using the official Debian repositories. I have AACS and
compiled libdbplus from the most recent git clone using this process:

git clone git://git.videolan.org/libbdplus.git
./bootstrap
./configure
make
make install
make clean

The library files appear in /usr/local/lib/:

libbdplus.a
libbdplus.la
libbdplus.so
libbdplus.so.0
libbdplus.so.0.0.1

When I run VLC and attempt to play a mounted BD at /media/cdrom0, I
get the following error:

"This Blu-ray Disc needs a library for BD+ decoding, and your system
does not have it."

This same error was what originally prompted me to download and
compile libbdplus. It seems VLC is looking somewhere other than
/usr/local/lib for libdbplus. How can I let VLC in on the actual location?

If I knew where VLC was looking by default for this library, I would
make a link from there to the actual location, but I've been unable to
figure out what location(s) VLC checks for the library.