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$Id: HACKING,v 1.10 2003/07/07 17:01:16 sam Exp $
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2002-08-26 07:18:05 +08:00
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Hacking vlc
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2002-09-30 19:05:42 +08:00
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Requirements
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2002-08-26 07:18:05 +08:00
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You will need the following tools if you plan to use the CVS version of vlc:
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2002-08-27 04:49:50 +08:00
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- autoconf version 2.50 or later
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- automake version 1.5 (but 1.6 or later is recommended)
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2002-08-27 22:15:24 +08:00
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- gettext version 0.10.40 (but 0.11.3 or later is recommended)
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After retrieving the CVS tree, you need to run the bootstrap script to
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generate all the files needed to build vlc. You can then run configure.
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If you do not have the correct version of these tools, or if they are
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simply not available for the operating system you plan to develop on,
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you can check out a CVS tree on an OS that provides these tools (such
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as a recent Linux distribution), run bootstrap, and then copy the whole
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tree to your retarded OS.
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2002-10-08 05:58:40 +08:00
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There is a possibility that, at some point, automake might segfault. The
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reason is unsufficient stack size, and can be easily fixed with the
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`ulimit` command (or an equivalent) available in most shells. For instance
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on bash 2.0, the following command solves the automake crash on Mac OS X :
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ulimit -s 20000
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2002-09-30 19:05:42 +08:00
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The bootstrap sequence
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The bootstrap script does the following actions:
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2003-06-27 21:50:13 +08:00
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- parse configure.ac for all Makefiles in the modules/ directory that need
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to be generated, and look for available modules in the corresponding
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Modules.am file. A module "foo" exists if there is a Modules.am file in
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the modules/ directory which defines SOURCES_foo.
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- create a top-level Modules.am file (which will be included by Makefile.am)
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which contains additional build rules for modules, and includes all the
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Modules.am files that were found in modules/
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2003-06-27 21:50:13 +08:00
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- create an m4/private.m4 from configure.ac, generating m4 macros that will
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be needed by configure.ac.
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- create a Makefile.am file for each Modules.am file found in modules/ .
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- run autopoint (previously gettextize) to create an intl/ directory,
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needed when libgettext is not available.
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- run the usual aclocal, autoheader, automake and autoconf, which create
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the various Makefile.in files from the corresponding Makefile.am and the
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configure script from configure.ac.
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- fix a few files in the vlc repository that may have been altered.
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How to add a module
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-------------------
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To add a module to the repository, just add its sources to a Modules.am
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file. If you create a new Modules.am, do not forget to add a corresponding
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2003-07-01 19:58:29 +08:00
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Makefile line at the end of configure.ac.
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2003-07-08 01:01:16 +08:00
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To have the module built, you need to add a call to AX_ADD_PLUGINS or
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AX_ADD_BUILTINS to configure.ac with your new module name as argument.
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