[vlc-devel] problems building vlclib 0.9.6 on OS X

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

please apply:

http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=e90f9886a02208a02c7bddba5f2b8de649158c1b;hp=969ebf913a96b0703980e78134db642443f42ead

Best,

On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 02:40:47PM -0700, Stjepan Rajko wrote :
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to build libvlc from the 0.9.6 source download, on OS X
> (leopard).  This is a part of my ongoing efforts to use libvlc in an
> application - I am very excited about libvlc, but linking to it
> successfully seems to be rather elusive for me :-)
> 
> I am following the instructions here:
> http://wiki.videolan.org/OSXCompile
> 
> I have some questions / problems I ran into.  My first question is
> about getting the source tarball vs. the current version using git.
> The instructions say "Note that the 3rd party libraries will probably
> break a few months after the release's publication".  I don't
> understand why this is a problem, since your extras/contrib script
> appears to download specific versions of library dependencies.
> Shouldn't it always download the versions that are appropriate for the
> tarballed release?
> 
> Since 0.9.6 is pretty recent, I optimistically went forward with
> building from the release.  The "Build external libs" step went fairly
> well.  Do disable fink, the instructions indicated I should modify
> .cshrc or .bashr, but I have neither of those files - I needed to
> update .profile.
> 
> I also ran into an error at one point:
> 
> ...
> /usr/bin/curl -L -O http://live555.com/liveMedia/public/live555-latest.tar.gz
>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
> 100  434k  100  434k    0     0   420k      0  0:00:01  0:00:01 --:--:--  800k
> rm -rf live || true
> gunzip -c live555-latest.tar.gz | tar xf - --exclude='[*?:<>\|]'
> mv live555-latest live || true
> mv: rename live555-latest to live/live555-latest: No such file or directory
> touch live
> patch -p0 < Patches/live-noapps.patch
> patching file live/Makefile.tail
> patch -p0 < Patches/live-uselocale.patch
> patching file live/liveMedia/include/Locale.hh
> patching file live/liveMedia/Locale.cpp
> patching file live/liveMedia/RTSPClient.cpp
> Hunk #1 succeeded at 1019 (offset 2 lines).
> Hunk #2 succeeded at 1033 (offset 2 lines).
> Hunk #3 succeeded at 2342 (offset 36 lines).
> patching file live/liveMedia/RTSPCommon.cpp
> Hunk #1 FAILED at 146.
> 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file
> live/liveMedia/RTSPCommon.cpp.rej
> patching file live/config.mingw
> make[1]: *** [live] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> I re-ran make and it continued, without any further problems.  I hope
> that patch hunk was not essential :-)
> 
> Some questions:
> 
> The instructions say "Now execute make. This will download prebuilt
> binary contrib you can happily use to build VLC wth -- only if you're
> using git master branch."  What are you supposed to do if you are not
> using the git master branch?  Also, I am not clear why it says that it
> will download prebuilt binary contrib when in fact it appears to be
> downloading and compiling a whole bunch of things.
> 
> The instructions do mention "If you're trying to build some release
> from 0.9 series, you need to execute: make src" but this doesn't work
> (make: Nothing to be done for `src'.).  I also remember seeing on some
> page that you can do "make bin" but that didn't work either.
> 
> --
> 
> I then went to the top-level VLC directory and ran "./configure
> --enable-debug --with-macosx-sdk" as per instructions.  The script
> quit with an error saying it can't find the "QuickTime/QuickTime.h"
> header.  I have the Quicktime framework installed.  I am not very
> knowledgeable about autoconf/configure, but I tried editing the
> configure.ac script to disable this header check (but still use the
> framework) and re-ran autoconf. I was then informed that I am using a
> different version of autoconf (2.60) when the other scripts were
> created using 2.61... The result didn't work, and neither did running
> autoreconf (both resulted in an early error running configure).
> 
> Any suggestion on what to try next?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Stjepan
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