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

[Dafna Hirschfeld]

I found:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/69048/is-there-a-convention-for-adding-pc-files-for-pkg-config



so this command solved the lua issue:



:~/codec/vlc-for-linux/vlc$ sudo apt-get install lua5.2-dev


now running ./configure I get

*configure: error: Missing libav or FFmpeg*


I'll keep investigating.

Dafna




On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 3:34 PM, Dafna Hirschfeld <dafna3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 *NOTE: GNU gettext appears to be missing or out-of-date.*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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