[vlc-devel] Building VLC on MacOS X

[Mark Wells]

Hello

I am trying to compile the VLC source on MacOS X Panther because I want 
to have a go at getting multi-channel audio (something I understand is 
currently broken on MacOS X). However, I am getting stuck simply 
building the distribution!

Ive got problems with the required libs 
(http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-sources.html) because many of 
them fail during 'make'. I have updated versions of GNU tools autoconf, 
automake and libtool, but should I have done anything else?


for example, ffmpeg gives parse errors in compiling imgconvert.c

make
make -C libavcodec all
cc -no-cpp-precomp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -faltivec -g -O3 -Wall 
-DHAVE_AV_CONFIG_H -I.. -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE 
-D_GNU_SOURCE -c -o imgconvert.o imgconvert.c
imgconvert.c:75: parse error before `,'
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make[1]: *** [imgconvert.o] Error 1
make: *** [lib] Error 2


this isnt the only non-compiling library, infact I have found only 6 
out of the 30ish libs that make without hassle.

any ideas? i have a feeling i must have missed something very basic!

many thanks

Mark Wells

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Mark Wells
Oxford Semiconductor Ltd
25 Milton Park, Abingdon, OX14 4SH, UK


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