[SOLVED] Compile VLC from source

[cyborg]

I'm using F16 and am trying to compile VLC because the rawhide rpmfusion isn't working.

I'm getting this error

checking for DBUS... no
configure: error: Couldn't find DBus >= 1.0.0, install libdbus-dev ?

dbus is installed (I think most stuff depends on it) so why isn't it working? Or does anyone know a different repo?

Cheers

[ah7013]

Is dbus-devel installed?

[cyborg]

Originally Posted by ah7013

Is dbus-devel installed?

Nope, thanks!

[Eirik]

Compiled VLC 2.0.1 from scratch today, here's the full list of dependencies I had to install to get (almost) everything available in VLC installed:
Fedora 16 64-bit VLC 2.0.1 dependency installs:

yum install lua-devel lua-devel libmad-devel ffmpeg-devel a52dec-devel libxcb-devel libX11-devel mesa-libGLU-devel pulseaudio-libs-devel libogg-devel gstreamer-plugins-ugly audacious-plugins-freeworld-mp3 xmms-mp3 ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel fribidi-devel libnotify-devel libcddb libcddb-devel libmodplug-devel libva libshout libshout-devel flac-devel twolame twolame-devel libdca libdca-devel libmpeg2 libmpeg2-devel speex speex-devel taglib-devel libmtp-devel fluidsynth fluidsynth-devel kate libkate kate-devel libkate-devel libcaca libcaca-devel libsamplerate libsamplerate-devel libprojectM libprojectM-devel libupnp-devel SDL-devel libdvdnav-devel libdvdread-devel libraw1394-devel zvbi-devel xkeycaps xmms-acme schroedinger-devel SDL_image-devel librsvg2-devel libavc1394-devel libdc1394-devel libass libass-devel live555-devel libv4l libv4l-devel libudev libudev-devel libxcb libxcb-devel xcb-util xcb-util-devel ffmpeg2dirac dirac dirac-devel dirac-libs libva libva-devel portaudio-devel

Add libbluray/libbluray-devel if you want Blu-Ray support. The Live555 library in Fedora is older than what 2.0.1 wants (dated 2011-12-XX), so that would have to compiled separately beforehand if you want "liveMedia". JACK, whatever goom is, avahi/bonjour, and gnome vfs support are the only components missing from that dependency list.

Fedora is also missing libsidplay2 for playing .SID chiptunes.

90% of those libraries come from the Fedora or Updates repositories, with the remaining packages coming from rpmfusion-free.


Alas, after spending an hour tracking down every last optional component that configure didn't like, the entire reason I compiled VLC 2, to have better support for CUE sheets describing MP3s, doesn't deliver.


EDIT: Post was created to save time for others who find this thread via Google. The blog posts detailing VLC dependencies on Feodra are way, way out-of-date.

[Fenrin]

vlc is also in the rpmfusion repo. For Fedora 17 (x86_64) it's here: http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/...ing/17/x86_64/

to install the whole repo for F17 the package rpmfusion-free-release-17-0.5.noarch.rpm can be downloaded and installed.

[Eirik]

But if you install it from the rawhide repo, won't that replace the existing VLC 1.1.13? Since it's still new software, and presumably buggy, I'd rather have both copies running side-by-side until I can be sure that VLC 2 will even work.

In any case, that never popped up in my searches a few weeks ago for how to install VLC2 via yum.

[Fenrin]

yes if you install vlc-2.0.1-1.fc17.x86_64.rpm, it will remove vlc-1*.rpm, if that's installed. Well I personally prefer gnome-mplayer.

vlc and many other multimedia programs and codecs are available via the rpmfusion repo. The free rpmfusion repo is at above link, it's not yet linked on the rpmfusion startpage yet (rawhide links do not work, rawhide is actually intended for Fedora 18).