VLC Installation Problem on Fedora Core 2

[paoloorefice]

ops
I'm an Italian student of Seconda Università di Napoli, i've a problem with vlc installation on Fedora Core 2. I've already configured the libraries and vlc 0.8.1. The "./configure" about vlc is ok! But 'make' give me problems:

...........
make[6]: Leaving directory `/home/paoloorefice/Desktop/vlc/vlc-0.8.1/modules/vis ualization/galaktos'
make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/paoloorefice/Desktop/vlc/vlc-0.8.1/modules/vis ualization/galaktos'
make[5]: Entering directory `/home/paoloorefice/Desktop/vlc/vlc-0.8.1/modules/vi sualization'
make[5]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/paoloorefice/Desktop/vlc/vlc-0.8.1/modules/vis ualization'
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/paoloorefice/Desktop/vlc/vlc-0.8.1/modules/vis ualization'
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/paoloorefice/Desktop/vlc/vlc-0.8.1/modules/vis ualization'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/paoloorefice/Desktop/vlc/vlc-0.8.1/modules'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/paoloorefice/Desktop/vlc/vlc-0.8.1/modules'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/paoloorefice/Desktop/vlc/vlc-0.8.1/modules'
Making all in po
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/paoloorefice/Desktop/vlc/vlc-0.8.1/po'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `all'. Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/paoloorefice/Desktop/vlc/vlc-0.8.1/po'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/paoloorefice/Desktop/vlc/vlc-0.8.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2
[root@ibm-lab vlc-0.8.1]#

Why?
Thanks!

[paoloorefice]

Are there italian students who can hel me about my thesis on vlc?

[fkuehne]

Do you have gettext installed?

BTW. I'm a German student, so I fear I cannot help you with your thesis.

[paoloorefice]

Yes the problem is gettext!! the "make" of gettext is in error!! Why? i think is a problem of the makefile? What do I make? Thanks

[fkuehne]

I recommend you to download the latest gettext release, compile and install it on your workstation. You compile it with a simple "./configure && make". Afterwards, run "make install" as root to install it.

If you don't want to use Gettext (you need it for a proper Italian GUI, otherwise the GUI will be in English), add "--disable-nls" to VLC's configure.



BTW. There is no need to ping through a private msg. I'll see you response in this thread in any case.

[paoloorefice]

Hello,
I have always problems about the installation of VLC. I use Fedora Core 2 (Linux family).
I've installed every libraries (from a52...to z-lib) and Vlc 0.8.1 in the same directory.(the path is: usr/local/src/vlc). When I compile vlc there is an error, because I cant'install "gettext", I think less a makefile in subdirectory po. The directory gettext infact, has 2 subdirectory: gettext-runtime and gettext-tools which don't compile!!!why?. "Make"cause an error.
What do I do?

The error is below:
..........
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/vlc/gettext-0.14.1/gettext-runtime/p o'
make[3]: *** No rule to make target `all'. Stop.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/vlc/gettext-0.14.1/gettext-runtime/po '
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/vlc/gettext-0.14.1/gettext-runtime'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/vlc/gettext-0.14.1/gettext-runtime'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
[root@localhost gettext-0.14.1]#



When compile vlc instead, the error is:

..............
Making all in po
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/vlc/vlc-0.8.1/po'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `all'. Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/vlc/vlc-0.8.1/po'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/vlc/vlc-0.8.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2
[root@localhost vlc-0.8.1]#

I do also ./configure --disable-nls but the errore is the same. Where do I do the correct download of gettext?I do download 2 times!


I'm doing "graduation thesis" to complete my studies about vlc and it's important for me! Is there someone who can help me to write thesis?I would write a module of vlc but now i don't understand anithing...Have you something to tell me?

Thanks, very much.!!!

Paolo Orefice

[fkuehne]

The easiest way to install Gettext is getting a RPM for it. You can find one here (created by Red Hat). BTW. You can find RPMs easily through rpmfind.net and on a special download page for Fedora hosted by Red Hat.

Re-run ./configure after installing this RPM. You might need to run "./bootstrap" first, if make still fails.

Btw. If you use the development trunk, you may run "./bootstrap && make src" in extras/contrib to download and install all needed 3rd party libraries in special directories inside the vlc-trunk, so they are not going to be used by any other application, so you won't get any dependency problems. Note: the development trunk becomes stabler and stabler every day, but it is not a beta yet, so you might stumble across some bugs or even crashes.

[paoloorefice]

I can't use rpm file.

This is the state of my actual installation:

MY VLC-INSTALLATION ON FEDORA CORE 2
in the path /usr/local/src/vlc there are:

LIBRARIES STATUS

-a52dec-0.7.4 OK
-libcddb-0.9.6 OK
-libmatroska-0.7.3 OK
-openslp-1.0.11 OK
-faac-1.24 OK
-libcdio-0.70 OK
-libmodplug-0.7 OK
-portaudio OK
-faad2-20040923 OK
-libdvbpsi-20041028 OK
-libogg-1.1 OK
-libid3tag-0.15.0b OK
-toolame-02m-beta8 OK
-ffmpeg-20041113 OK
-libdvdcss-1.2.8 OK
-mpeg2dec-0.4.0 OK
-libdvdnav-0.1.10 OK
-freetype-2.1.4 OK
-libdvdread-20041028 OK
-libtheora-1.0alpha3 OK
-libebml-0.7.1 OK
-libvorbis-1.0.1 OK
-zlib-1.1.4 OK
-libpng-1.2.5 OK



-vcdimager-0.7.20 NO (VCDimager library)???

checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for libcdio >= 0.65... Package libcdio was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libcdio.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libcdio' found
configure: error: Required libcdio library not found. Please get libcdio from http://www.gnu.org/software/libcdio/ and install it.
[root@localhost vcdimager-0.7.20]#




-flac-1.1.0 NO (FLAC is audio codec)

./configure

....
config.status: creating include/Makefile
config.status: creating include/FLAC/Makefile
config.status: error: cannot find input file: include/FLAC/Makefile.in
[root@localhost flac-1.1.0]#




-libspeex-20031022 NO (Speex audio decoder)



-wxWidgets ???? (WxWidgets, a GUI toolkit)



-fribidi-0.10.4 OK??? NON INTERESSA LINGUAGGIO ARABO!!!!
(Hebrew and arabic languages support library)


'make'
[root@localhost fribidi-0.10.4]# make
Makefile:521: *** missing separator. Stop.
[root@localhost fribidi-0.10.4]# make install
Makefile:521: *** missing separator. Stop.
[root@localhost fribidi-0.10.4]#




-x264-20041029 ????? (AVC/H.264 video encoder)


-gettext-0.14.1 NO (Internationalization library)

Making all in po
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/vlc/gettext-0.14.1/gettext-runtime/po'
make[3]: *** No rule to make target `all'. Stop.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/vlc/gettext-0.14.1/gettext-runtime/po'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/vlc/gettext-0.14.1/gettext-runtime'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/vlc/gettext-0.14.1/gettext-runtime'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
[root@localhost gettext-0.14.1]#




-libiconv-1.9.2 NO (character encoding conversion library)

'make'
.....
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/vlc/libiconv-1.9.2/src'
cd po && make all
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/vlc/libiconv-1.9.2/po'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `all'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/vlc/libiconv-1.9.2/po'
make: *** [all] Error 2
[root@localhost libiconv-1.9.2]#




-libxml2-2.6.4 NO (xml library)


Making all in libxml
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/vlc/libxml2-2.6.4/include/libxml'
make[3]: *** No rule to make target `SAX.h', needed by `all-am'. Stop.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/vlc/libxml2-2.6.4/include/libxml'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/vlc/libxml2-2.6.4/include'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/vlc/libxml2-2.6.4'
make: *** [all] Error 2
[root@localhost libxml2-2.6.4]# cd ..







-goom2k4-dev15-pre NO (Audio Visualization library)

[root@localhost goom2k4-dev15-pre]# ./configure
configure: error: cannot find sources (README) in . or ..
[root@localhost goom2k4-dev15-pre]# make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
[root@localhost goom2k4-dev15-pre]# make install
make: Nothing to be done for `install'.
[root@localhost goom2k4-dev15-pre]#






-live NO (RTSP library)

[root@localhost live]# ./configure
Whoa! This software distribution does NOT use the normal Unix "configure" mechanism for generating a Makefile. For instructions on how to build this software, see <http://www.live.com/liveMedia/>.
Also, please make sure that you're using the most up-to-date version of the source code - available from <http://www.live.com/liveMedia/public/>.
[root@localhost live]#







-lame-3.96 NO (MP3 audio encoder)

config.status: creating ACM/Makefile
config.status: error: cannot find input file: ACM/Makefile.in
[root@localhost lame-3.96]#




-libmad-0.15.1b NO (MP3 audio decoder)

synth.c:546:18: D.dat: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [synth.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/vlc/libmad-0.15.1b'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/vlc/libmad-0.15.1b'
make: *** [all] Error 2
[root@localhost libmad-0.15.1b]#




INSTALLATION VLC


-vlc-0.8.1

MY CONFIGURE iS:

[root@localhost vlc-0.8.1]# ./configure --disable-mad --disable-ffmpeg --disable-nls --disable-wxwindows --disable-skins2

'make'
.........
Making all in po
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/vlc/vlc-0.8.1/po'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `all'. Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/vlc/vlc-0.8.1/po'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/vlc/vlc-0.8.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2
I downloaded the 'gettext directory.rpm' in the my vlc directory which contains vlc 0.8.1 and other libraries



My question is: What'is the right "configure" without error???

What are the libraries to disable?
for example if i don't want use get text, what is the string???
I hope you help me to correct string. I would install vlc no rpm!I would to be a developer!!!

for example ./configure --disable-mad ettc...

What are the libraries to disable? and What disable them?
I need this installation is very important to me for my thesis!!! thanks much for help me!!
If there isn't this possibility what is the easy installation on fedora core 2 to developer??
Thanks

[GuestNEW]

Why are there these errors?

[paoloorefice]

For me it's very important vlc installation!!!Help me please!

I disable gettext but the error after ./bootstrap ,configure& make is always with 'make'
.........
Making all in po
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/vlc/vlc-0.8.1/po'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `all'. Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/vlc/vlc-0.8.1/po'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/vlc/vlc-0.8.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Can you help me? My prof at the university wants that I write a module and help you to the vodeolan project with my thesis but I don't understand why the installation is incorrect!!!
Thanks much!!

[fkuehne]

My prof at the university wants that I write a module and help you to the videolan project with my thesis.

Ah, then you need to use the development trunk of VLC anyway. Please download subversion (or install it through "Add / Remove Applications", it's part of the fedora distribution but not installed by default) and install it. Then check out the current tree with the following command: "svn co svn://svn.videolan.org/vlc/trunk vlc-trunk". It will create a directory called "vlc-trunk" in your current directory. Then cd to "extras/contrib" inside the trunk, run "./bootstrap" + "make src" and get yourself a coffee. When the compilation is done, you have all 3rd party libraries installed and you can compile VLC in its main directory. Note that you need to run a ./bootstrap first before configure can be used.

Sorry, I thought that you just need to compile VLC, but if you want to edit it, its much better the get the current trunk, benefit from its extras/contrib-compilation-system and use the latest API. If you have further questions how to edit VLC, please write to vlc-devel [at] videolan [dot] org or meet us on IRC (#videolan, freenode-network). BTW. What are you going to implement in VLC? (just curious)