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Asked: 2016-12-30 09:18:35 +0800 CST

How to compile the current VLC version (2.2.4) on Ubuntu 12.04?

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I tried to compile the current version of the VLC media player on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

Trying to achieve this I attempted the following:

  • I extracted the .xz with tar xvfJ vlc-2.2.4.tar.xz
  • Changed to the vlc-2.2.4 directory
  • Executed ./bootstrap
  • Executed ./configure
  • Executed ./make

This did not work!
I had to install several *-dev packages (dependencies) via sudo apt-get -y install * to proceed further.

Unfortunately even this has not been sufficient to create an executable. I got stuck at this error message in the make process:

video_chroma/swscale.c:39:32: fatal error: libswscale/version.h: File or directory not found

Trying to research this error was not successful.
So my full question is:

What exact steps do I have to take to successfully compile VLC-2.2.4 on Ubuntu 12.04?

12.04

1 Answers

  1. I had similar problem and this worked for me:

    % cd contrib
% mkdir native
% cd native
% ../bootstrap
% make

    Everything else you may need is in here: https://wiki.videolan.org/UnixCompile/

    If this doesn't work - check your dependencies.

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