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Compiling libvlc or vlc

This guide is dedicated to the configuration of a project using VLC or libVLC, whatever the platform is. In the following, we'll mostly talk about libVLC but the same principles can be applied to the compilation of VLC.

Tools

Dependencies

When cross-compiling libVLC to another platform, we usually cross-compile every needed dependencies from the vlc/contrib directory.

The contrib/ is using a custom set of makefile to describe how to build each dependency and apply the needed patches beforehand. There are two different folders for each target: the one used to build libraries and the prefix in which libraries are installed.