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dear all,

i want to do some modification and improvement for VLC on Mac OS. so usually what kind of development environment should i use? Xcode or some others?

thx...

Xcode is required to create the application bundle, to provide the necessary compilers and of course to edit the nib files. The actual compilation process is accomplished with autoconf/automake. The choice of a text editor is up to you.

For more information on compiling VLC for Mac, check http://wiki.videolan.org/OSXCompile.

Note that the master repository of VLC is quite broken wrt Mac right now, so you might want to start with the stable repo (available at [url]git://git.videolan.org/vlc/vlc-1.1.git[/url]) to have something working.

Please also note that you'll need Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6 with Xcode 3.1 or 3.2 for compilation. Xcode 4 is not supported for now.