[vlc] Re: Can't run vlc 0.8.2

[Howard Johnson]

Jean-Paul Saman wrote:

> 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.

That's where I got the wxWidgets/wxWindows code... from the VLC site.  
Does not work for us.

>>
>> 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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