Compiling VLC for Mac OS X

[Eric Carlson]

Yeah, the Mac OS X version doesn't have encrypted DVD support yet. That 
requires the kext, and it doesn't really work yet.

You can get the kext to compile in its current state by adding a comma 
to the end of the line before the parse error line. But that kext won't 
do anything (towards reading encrypted DVDs anyway...) unless you follow 
these instructions to activate some functions in it (see 
http://www.via.ecp.fr/ml/videolan/vlc-devel/200104/msg00016.html). 
AFAIK, it still kernel panics before it can play the DVD in this 
"enabled" state so isn't really useful.

However, I've been able to successfully play unencrypted VOB files so 
the support for actually playing the file, once authenticated, is there. 
Hopefully it'll all work soon (It'd be nice if we beat Apple to having 
working DVDs on OS X... :-)

Eric

On Tuesday, April 17, 2001, at 01:51  AM, Michael Butler wrote:
> Well that sorta worked.  I got it to make the app partially, even 
> though it ended in an error.  It runs.  It plays an mpeg movie... or at 
> least its sound track.  I tried building the kext, but it says a bunch 
> of things about the kext files being invalid and so I can't really play 
> dvds or anything at all with it.  Sure would like to though...
>
> here is the error from the pbxbuild:
> DVDioctl.cpp: In function `int DVDBlockIoctl(int, long unsigned int, 
> char *, int, proc *)':
> DVDioctl.cpp:488: parse error before `->'
> DVDioctl.cpp: In function `void DVDReadWriteCompletion(void *, void *, 
> int, long long unsigned int)':
> DVDioctl.cpp:617: warning: unused variable `dev_t dev'
> ...failed CompileCplusplus 
> /var/root/vlc-0.2.72/extras/DVDioctl/build/DVDioctl.build/DVDioctl.build/
> Objects/
> ppc/DVDioctl.o ...
> ** BUILD FAILED **
>
> Michael Butler
> volrath at mac.com
> On Monday, April 16, 2001, at 11:19 PM, Eric Carlson wrote:
>
>> Do this (do a make clean first if necessary):
>> ./configure --disable-gtk
>> make
>> <wait... it will fail with a bunch of ld errors>
>> ranlib lib/*.a
>> make
>>
>> I just tested this with the latest 0.2.72 tarball and it works fine.
>>
>> You should end up with a working command line binary. vlc.app still 
>> seems to have issues, but your results may vary.
>>
>> Eric
>>
>> On Monday, April 16, 2001, at 11:39  PM, volrath at mac.com wrote:
>>>
>>> I can't quite get vlc to compile.  After compiling for a while, it 
>>> says
>>> this:
>>> (massive link here)
>>> cc: unrecognized option `-rdynamic'
>>> /usr/bin/ld: table of contents for archive: lib/ps.a is out of date;
>>> rerun ranlib(1) (can't load from it)
>>> /usr/bin/ld: table of contents for archive: lib/ts.a is out of date;
>>> rerun ranlib(1) (can't load from it)
>>> etc...
>>> After I ranlib lib/*, and start making again, it says this:
>>> /usr/bin/ld: multiple definitions of symbol _g_atexit
>>> intf_gtk.o definition of _g_atexit in section (__TEXT,__text)
>>> /usr/local/lib/libglib.a(gutils.o) definition of _g_atexit in section
>>> (__TEXT,__text)
>>> Anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong?  I'm compiling on Mac OS X
>>> 10.0.1 with everything that they said was needed.  Dunno what to do.  
>>> If
>>> it helps, I can send the full text as well.  Someone lemme know if I
>>> should.
>>>
>>> Michael Butler
>>> volrath at mac.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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