[vlc-devel] VLC on OS X and LLVM

[Maximilian Nickel]

Hi,
i created a port of VLC for the MacPorts-Project and have question about
compiling VLC on OSX. Your documentation states here:
http://wiki.videolan.org/OSXCompile that LLVM is needed to compile VLC on
OSX. Since LLVM is quite a big compilation i checked if it is really
necessary and tried to compile VLC with gcc-4.0.
Everything compiled fine and simple usage test was ok too. So now i'm
wondering if that wiki page i mentioned above is just outdated or am i
missing something?

A second point i'd like to mention is, that i had to patch your Makefile.
First of all "make" triggers an automatic "make install" on OSX since the
target VLC.app is included in the target all.
Second the Makefile assumes an existing .git directory which of course is
not present in the tarball and thus errors out.
You can get the patch for the Makefile here:
http://trac.macports.org/attachment/ticket/15389/VLC-Makefile.in.diff

Thanks
/max

P.S: In case you use MacPorts and want to test the port, the complete ticket
is here: http://trac.macports.org/ticket/15389
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