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1/ Generic install procedure for Unix based systems |
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1.a/ Requirements. |
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1.b/ How to build from a release tarball. |
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1.c/ How to build from CVS. |
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1.d/ Cross compiling xvidcore. |
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1.e/ What is the meaning of the xvidcore Makefile output. |
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1.f/ Building a Debian package. |
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2/ Generic install procedure for Win32/MSVC. |
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2.a/ Requirements. |
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2.b/ How to build the VFW frontend from a release tarball. |
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2.c/ How to build from CVS. |
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1/ Generic install procedure for Unix based systems |
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This build process works for most common Unix based systems, including |
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GNU/Linux, (Free|Open|Net)BSD, Solaris and faked unix environments |
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like cygwin and minsys on Win32 platforms. |
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1.a/ Requirements |
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- ANSI C compiler (gcc) |
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- make (GNU make, BSD make, Solaris make) |
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- a C library providing ANSI C functions like malloc/free/realloc |
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and some other standard functions. |
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- nasm on ia32 platforms for MMX/SSE optimized code. |
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1.b/ How to build from a release tarball |
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Get the latest version on http://www.xvid.org/, and uncompress it on |
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your disk. Let's name the resulting source directory ${xvidcore}. |
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The next step allows you to configure the xvid sources. |
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# cd ${xvidcore}/build/generic |
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# ./configure |
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Some building options can be tuned thanks to the ./configure tool. You |
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can use your own CC and CFLAGS variables in order to override xvid's |
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default ones. To have a list of known options: |
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# ./configure --help |
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Now xvidcore is configured according to your specific platform. You |
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can still handwrite the platform.inc file in order to add/remove |
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specific flags that ./configure may have set them wrong. |
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It is time to build xvidcore: |
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# make |
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That creates a =build directory where all object files go, and where |
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the build targets are linked. If no error was reported by the build |
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process, then you can install it on your system: |
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# make install |
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This copies the shared and static libraries to the prefix location |
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passed to the ./configure tool (/usr/local by default). The xvid.h |
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include file is also copied during the "make install" run. |
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Voila, xvidcore is installed on your system, make sure your runtime |
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linker knows about the xvidcore prefix lib dir where it is |
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installed. And make also sure that it generates a symlink to its |
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SONAME. In case it would do not take care of the symlink itself: |
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# cd ${prefix}/lib |
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# ls libxvidcore.so.* |
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ls should list at least one libxvidcore.so.MAJOR.MINOR file |
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# ln -s libxvidcore.so.MAJOR.MINOR libxvidcore.so.MAJOR |
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You may also add a .so link to .so.MAJOR, so that applications linked |
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against .so are in fact linked to .so.MAJOR and thus ensures better |
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binary compatibility as we take care not changing the MAJOR number |
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until there is an incompatible ABI change. |
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# ln -s libxvidcore.so.MAJOR libxvidcore.so |
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1.c/ How to build from CVS |
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In order to build from CVS, you need some more requirements compared |
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to the release building process: |
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- GNU autoconf >= 2.5 |
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- GNU automake (no specific version) |
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- GNU libtool (no specific version) |
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Grab the desired CVS version you want to build. |
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# cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.xvid.org:/xvid login |
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(just type enter) |
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# cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.xvid.org:/xvid co xvidcore |
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(read the CVS documentation if you want details about branch |
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checking outs) |
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You now need to bootstrap the build files: |
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# cd xvidcore/build/generic |
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# ./bootstrap.sh |
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A configure script has been bootstraped, you're now able to follow |
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the "Build from release tarballs" steps. |
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1.d/ Cross compiling xvidcore. |
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The configure script allows an easy handling of cross compilation. You |
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have just to specify the host and build platform values. |
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e.g: building Win32 libxvidcore.dll from a gnu/linux systems |
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# cd ${xvidcore}/build/generic |
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# ./configure --host=i386-mingw32 --build=i386-pc-linux-gnu |
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And then build as usual. |
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As the example uses the Win32 target, we can even build the vfw frontend. |
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Additional requirements are: |
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- Resource compiler (the Makefile uses the syntax of windres from the |
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GNU CC suite, but you can easily modify the cmd line) |
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- GNU make (other make programs may have problem with shell expansion) |
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So to cross compile the VFW frontend, you just need to override the |
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Makefile variables pointing to the compiler and the resource compiler. |
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These variables are CC and WINDRES. |
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# cd ${xvidcore}/vfw/bin |
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# make CC=i386-mingw32-gcc WINDRES=i386-mingw32-windres |
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1.e/ What is the meaning of xvidcore Makefile output. |
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The makefile available in ${xvidcore}/build/generic is handwritten and |
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outputs uncommon building progress strings to the terminal. You may |
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want to understanding their meaning. Here is a brief explaination. |
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- A: a/dir/file.(asm|s) |
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This an assembling rule assembling 'a/dir/file.(asm|s)' |
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- C: a/dir/file.c |
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This is a compilation rule compiling 'a/dir/file.c' |
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- Cl: Stuff |
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This is a cleaning rule in action |
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- D: Directory |
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This is a rule creating 'Directory' |
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- I: a/dir/file |
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Installing 'file' in 'a/dir' |
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- L: file |
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Linking 'file' |
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- W: file |
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Compiling the Win32 resource 'file' |
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1.f/ Building a Debian package. |
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Release tarballs contain a debian dir so that you can easily build a |
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debian package. Just execute the usual steps. They may be sumed up to: |
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# cd ${xvidcore} |
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# dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot |
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If all went right, you're now able to install the package: |
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# cd .. |
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# dpkg -i libxvidcore... |
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2/ Generic install procedure for Win32/MSVC. |
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2.a/ Requirements. |
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- MS VisualDev 6 Processor Pack 5 or MS VisualDev 7 |
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- nasm installed as 'nasm' in the msvc binary search paths. |
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2.b/ How to build the VFW frontend from a release tarball. |
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Download the latest source distribution from http://www.xvid.org/ and |
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uncompress it on your disk. Let's call this directory ${xvidcore}. |
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- Open the workspace xvidcore.dsw located in |
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${xvidcore}/build/win32. |
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- Then choose the libxvidcore project as the Active project of the |
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workspace. |
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- Make sure the Active configuration is |
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'libxvidcore Win32 Release' |
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- Build the project (F7) |
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- Open the project vfw.dsp file located in ${xvidcore}/vfw. |
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- Make sure the Active configuration is |
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'vfw Win32 Release' |
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- Build the project (F7) |
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- Install the resulting VFW frontend using the xvid.inf file |
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provided in ${xvidcore}/vfw/bin. Right click on the file, and |
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then click 'Install' |
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2.c/ How to build from CVS. |
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You have first to retrieve the sources from the xvid CVS repository |
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using a tool like WinCVS. Then follow the normal steps explained in |
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the previous section. |
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NB: your CVS program may not convert text files to the cr/lf windows |
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text. In that case opening project files in MSVC will result in |
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some weird error messages from MSVC. To fix that, you have to |
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convert all .dsp files to the cr/lf format. You can do that |
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opening the .dsp file in WordPad and saving it. It should now be |
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in cr/lf format. |
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