Where to get the "friends to compile" VLC on ubuntu

[patelbhavin27]

Hi,

There is a requirement of "friends" tool to compile VLC on ubuntu.

where to find it ?

Thanks,
bha

[arun_ncce]

Hi

I am trying to build the code in suse linux and Ubuntu but i am getting error in both systems.

In suse linux when i typed ./bootstrap then it gave me following error


configure.ac:5390: warning: macro `AM_PATH_LIBGCRYPT' not found in library
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy --force
Putting files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `autotools'.
configure.ac:5390: warning: macro `AM_PATH_LIBGCRYPT' not found in library
autoreconf: running: /usr/local/bin/autoconf --include=m4 --force
configure.ac:1: error: possibly undefined macro: dnl
If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.ac:11: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_SUBST
configure.ac:34: error: possibly undefined macro: AS_IF
configure.ac:52: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_ARG_ENABLE
configure.ac:56: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR
configure.ac:76: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DEFINE
configure.ac:103: error: possibly undefined macro: AS_HELP_STRING
configure.ac:134: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_WARN
configure.ac:308: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_TRY_LINK
configure.ac:482: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_LIB
configure.ac:491: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CACHE_CHECK
configure.ac:583: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_HEADERS
configure.ac:2254: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PATH_PROG
configure.ac:5051: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PATH_PROGS
configure.ac:5390: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PATH_LIBGCRYPT
autoreconf: /usr/local/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1

and similar error comes in ubuntu as well.
Please let me know if somebody faced this kind of issue.
I will really appreciate.
Thanks

Arun Mittal

[arun_ncce]

Hi Guys

I have one more question and that can be stupid.

On the website it was written VLC uses gcc, automake, autoconf and friends for compilation

is friends some kind of plugin , if yes can somebody post a link to download that.

Thanks

Arun Mittal

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

no, friends mean, other tools of autotools

[xtophe]

to make it completly explicit: automake and libtool (and aclocal but normally it's in the same package as automake)

And about AM_PATH_LIBGCRYPT, you need to install libgcrypt-dev