[vlc] Re: compiling vlc 0.6

Gildas Bazin gbazin at netcourrier.com
Wed Jun 25 23:32:52 CEST 2003


On Wednesday 25 June 2003 18:00, Simon wrote:
> I had similar problem compiling cvs 0.6.0 under RH7.3. This is what I had 
> to do.
> 
> 1. go to ffmpeg directory, which in my case was at the same level as
> vlc-0.6.0. I did the usual thing:
> make distclean (start with a clean distribution)
> ./configure -enable-shared
> make

Just a small advice here. You shouldn't compile ffmpeg as a shared library. 
Its api is changing so often that it is a lot safer to build ffmpeg 
statically with your programs. That will prevent other programs (depending 
on it) to break each time you update your ffmpeg.

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Gildas

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