HOWTO: Building vlc 0.8.6c for Solaris x86

[steved]

This post is based on bits and pieces that I gathered from various parts around the net, and I thought it would be of help to anyone else in the future trying to install VLC on the Solaris platform.

I manually installed the components necessary to support mpeg and mpeg2 ts playing. I have experienced some minor problems, such as segmentation faults occuring at every close, and the file browser was not working properly, but so far it has been very useable.
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Source tars:
mpeg2dec-0.4.1.tar
libdvbpsi4-0.1.5.tar
wxX11-2.8.4.tar
vlc-0.8.6c.tar

libmpeg2
%> ./configure --prefix={MPEG2INST} --enable-shared

libdvbpsi
%> ./configure --prefix={DVBINST}

wxX11
%> ./configure --prefix={WXINST} --with-x11 --enable-shared

vlc
%> ./configure --prefix={VLC_INST} --disable-mad --disable-ffmpeg --with-libmpeg2-tree={MPEG2SRC}
--with-dvbpsi-tree={DVBSRC}
--with-wx-config-path={WXINST}/bin --disable-gnomevfs --disable-skins2 --without-libintl-prefix CFLAGS="-D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D__EXTENSIONS__"


Open the file ./src/network/rootwrap.c in a text editor.
Replace AF_LOCAL with AF_UNIX (~ line 276)

Open the file ./vlc-config in a text editor.
Replace /intl/libintl.a with -lintl (~ line 230)

Open the file ./share/Makefile
Replace tar command with gtar (~ line 816)

A gmake then builds everything with no errors.

-steved

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Can I suggest you try it with wx 2.6.3 to avoid the volume bug in 2.8.4?

[cdsouza]

Hi,

I followed the instructions listed and was successful with the ./configure operation.

But the gmake fails in file /input/es_out.c with an error message similar to the following:
input/es_out.c:1642:error:incompatible types in assignment.

In the ./configure command, I disabled wxwidgets and skin2.
Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

[MrSilverman]

Heh. I had this problem last year. I solve it, but forgot how

[ronaldo30]

Hi,

I followed the instructions listed and was successful with the ./configure operation.

But the gmake fails in file /input/es_out.c with an error message similar to the following:
input/es_out.c:1642:error:incompatible types in assignment.

In the ./configure command, I disabled wxwidgets and skin2.
Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

I followed the instructions but you can not make it work.

Where find documentation ?

Thanks!