[vlc-devel] [PATCH] contrib/live555: use our compiler

[Olivier Gambier]

Le 24 janv. 2012 à 18:39, Rémi Denis-Courmont a écrit :

> Le mardi 24 janvier 2012 19:24:33 Olivier Gambier, vous avez écrit :
>> Crosscompiling from osx to linux doesn't work right now, because the system
>> ar is used. Adding a replacement for ar to $(AR) fixes the problem as far
>> as I can tell. Now, I'm not privy enough with vlc build system, so what do
>> you think? Can this have a negative impact on something else?
> 
> No no, that would be correct and should be done.
> 

Ok.
Is the 1.2/2.0 branch "restricted" already? Or do you think it is it still time to have that patch in it?

> However, cross-compiling VLC to x86 Linux is not really supported. I do not 
> know that it was ever tested.

Yes, I'm aware of that. Right now, our (osx) cross-compiling attempts are experimental / for evaluation. I might end-up building linux on linux.
I guess there is still value in these attempts if it ends-up with such patches that I hope will further strengthen VLC build system. 

> Also VLC contribs definitely lack some much 
> needed desktop Linux libraries such as XCB or Qt4-X11.
> 

Ok.
Actually, I'm interested only in libvlc (and contribs - not the VLC gui), so I guess the QT missing bits won't hit me? (either way, I'm interested in crosscompiling QT as well).

Anyhow...


Thanks!

- Olivier