[vlc] Re: Can't run vlc 0.8.2

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Howard Johnson wrote:

> I have been running vlc 0.8.1 on Linux successfully for some time 
> now.  I just now recompiled all the new sources for vlc 0.8.2.  
> However it will not run because of the following error:
>
> VLC media player 0.8.2 Janus
> 09:56:12: Error: Failed to initialize GUI: no built-in themes found.

My first guess is that you need a new version of wxWidgets/wxWindows. 
Use the version that is used to built VLC-0.8.2 with. You can find it in 
the contrib directory of the 0.8.2 release.

>
> I looked into the code and discovered that the error message is 
> actually coming from the wxWidgets library.  I tried setting the 
> environment variable WXTHEME (even though their docs say you do not 
> have to do this on Unix) and still cannot run vlc.
>
> Am I missing a parameter to pass to ./configure when compiling vlc?  
> Or some parameter to pass to wxWidgets to get it to run with vlc?  
> Someone else in another area of the company is having a similar problem.
>
> Howard Johnson
> Adtran, Inc.
>
Greetings,
Jean-Paul Saman.

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