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Hi,

I have been unsuccessfully trying to get the VLCKit framework working, as described in http://wiki.videolan.org/Mac_OS_X_Framework
Both the one-click build and the Terminal build fail. The latter fails with this message:
I have been searching for this error on the internet (incl. this forum), found a few people facing the same problem but no one got an answer about it.

How could I fix this bug?

SOLVED -- I investigated a bit within the makefiles and here's what I discovered.

Actually the problem was not with the framework itself, but with compiling VLC on Mac OS X. Having figured that, I checked http://wiki.videolan.org/OSXCompile and found that you should set a pair of global variables before running ./configure :
$ export CC=/Developer/usr/bin/llvm-gcc-4.2
$ export CXX=/Developer/usr/bin/llvm-g++-4.2
$ export OBJC=/Developer/usr/bin/llvm-gcc-4.2

Without these, make will use the default gcc, which is, on Mac OS X Leopard, gcc-4.0. Yet gcc-4.2 is needed, else build will fail as stated in the bootstrap output:
*****************************************************************
* We are using GCC-4.2 on OS X, so compilation WILL FAIL if it *
* is NOT installed. *
*****************************************************************

So you need to include those three lines between the second ./bootstrap and the ./configure

However this is not enough. Indeed, the last build phase (make in projects/macosx/framework) calls the Xcode project builder, which by default will in turn rebuild everything from the first step, without proper setting of the global variables, thus failing the build.

To circumvent this, do not run the final make but instead after having built the vlc core, open the framework project in Xcode, select VLCKit as the active target, and build.

That's it!

http://wiki.videolan.org/Mac_OS_X_Framework updated according to these elements.

When I try to follow these instructions the build still fails.
First I got From this it would appear that VLC_BUILD_DIR wasn't set properly so I changed Pre-Compile.sh from to but I still get this error: Any tips on what I can do?
I'm on OS X 10.5.8 with Xcode 3.1.2 and I have tried both release and debug builds.

Hi!

I found a different way to compile the kit. Here is the way I got it to work:

-Download the head with git by entering following command in the terminal:
> git clone git://git.videolan.org/vlc.git

-Then go to vlc/projects/macosx/framework and open the vlckit project.
-Select as target "vlc-contrib-core-framework" and hit build. This downloads all dependencies and compiles required binaries as the vlc library. To compile the project, you need to have gcc 4.2, otherwise you will get a compiler error. The compiling takes a while and even may throw errors for some binaries which cannot be installed, but it seems not to be required.
-To check if everything works: Select the vlckit as target and hit build. Should compile without any error.

I don't know why the wiki doesn't explain this way; it is much easier than the way they describe it and it even works.

Enjoy your vlc-kit!

Marcel Erz

Thank you, worked like a charm!

Hello, i try to build the VLCKit Framework and get a failure:

Ld build/Debug/VLCKit.framework/Versions/A/VLCKit normal x86_64
cd /Users/dsand/dev/vlc/projects/macosx/framework
setenv MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET 10.5
/Developer/usr/bin/llvm-gcc-4.2 -arch x86_64 -dynamiclib -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk -L/Users/dsand/dev/vlc/projects/macosx/framework/build/Debug -L/Users/dsand/dev/vlc/projects/macosx/framework/build/Debug/VLCKit.framework/lib -F/Users/dsand/dev/vlc/projects/macosx/framework/build/Debug -filelist /Users/dsand/dev/vlc/projects/macosx/framework/build/VLCKit.build/Debug/VLCKit.build/Objects-normal/x86_64/VLCKit.LinkFileList -install_name @loader_path/../Frameworks/VLCKit.framework/Versions/A/VLCKit -mmacosx-version-min=10.5 -single_module -read_only_relocs suppress -lvlc -framework Cocoa -framework QuartzCore -single_module -compatibility_version 1 -current_version 1 -o /Users/dsand/dev/vlc/projects/macosx/framework/build/Debug/VLCKit.framework/Versions/A/VLCKit

ld: library not found for -lvlc
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Command /Developer/usr/bin/llvm-gcc-4.2 failed with exit code 1

i used the step from above...

I just did a git pull and found these errors when trying to build:

vlc/projects/macosx/framework/Sources/VLCMedia.m:449: error: too many arguments to function 'libvlc_event_attach'

Indeed, the definition of libvlc_event_attach seems to have changed... I'm not sure how to re-write the method calls, however. Can anyone shed some light?

[UPDATE] nevermind... new git pull solved this.

Dan