[vlc-devel] problem compiling vlc master branch on ubuntu 16.04.1

[Dafna Hirschfeld]

looking at the 'configure' source code I found out that lua assumed not to
exist because it has no .pc file in the default path search of pkg-config.
Is there an option to automatically ad d a pc file for it ?

Dafna

On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Dafna Hirschfeld <dafna3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, I try to follow this instructions in order to compile vlc :
> https://wiki.videolan.org/UnixCompile/
>
> I did cloned the code and run and when running ./bootstrap I get:
>
> *~/codec/vlc-for-linux/vlc$ ./bootstrap *
>
> *NOTE: GNU gettext appears to be missing or out-of-date.*
>
> *Please install or update GNU gettext.*
>
> *Also check if you have cvs, a dependency of autopoint.*
>
> *Otherwise, you will not be able to build a source tarball.*
>
> *==============================================================*
>
> * ...*
>
>
> but when I install gettext , I see it is already installed:
>
>
> *~/codec/vlc-for-linux/vlc$ sudo apt-get install gettext*
>
> *[sudo] password for dafna: *
>
> *Reading package lists... Done*
>
> *Building dependency tree       *
>
> *Reading state information... Done*
>
> *gettext is already the newest version (0.19.7-2ubuntu3).*
>
> *gettext set to manually installed.*
>
> *0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 146 not upgraded.*
>
>
> then when I run ./configure I get a message that lua is missing:
>
> *configure: error: Could not find lua. Lua is needed for some interfaces
> (rc, telnet, http) as well as many other custom scripts. Use --disable-lua
> to ignore this error. *
>
> but again when I try to install lua5.2 it again find that it is installed
>
> Dafna
>
>
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