Its [url=http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index2.html]official page[/url] actually has a link for Solaris, which points to the page for [url=http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-sources.html]the source code[/url], unfortunately.
The official VLC Web site claims that Solaris is supported: "For the other operating systems supported, there are no precompiled binaries. You will have to get the source code for VLC and its required libraries and build them yourself". There is a page with instructions for [url=http://wiki.videolan.org/UnixCompile]compiling for Unix[/url]. Compiling VLC requires first having the necessary libraries. "If your distro is really bad and doesn't provide the libs, no -dev or -devel packages", the instructions suggest "using the contribs system in VLC's sources". As far as I'm aware, this option is relatively new. Anyway, on my 2009.06 OpenSolaris system, with /usr/gnu/bin at the head of my PATH, when I follow the instructions and try make, I run into the following error: i386-pc-solaris2.11-gcc -std=gnu99 -I/export/home/me/Download/software/src/vlc-1.0.0/extras/contrib/include -DNDEBUG -isystem /export/home/me/Download/software/src/vlc-1.0.0/extras/contrib/include -o .libs/msgcmp msgcmp-msgcmp.o -L/export/home/me/Download/software/src/vlc-1.0.0/extras/contrib/lib ./.libs/libgettextsrc.so /export/home/me/Download/software/src/vlc-1.0.0/extras/contrib/src/gettext/gettext-tools/gnulib-lib/.libs/libgettextlib.so -lcroco-0.6 -lglib-2.0 -ltermcap /export/home/me/Download/software/src/vlc-1.0.0/extras/contrib/lib/libiconv.so -lc -R/export/home/me/Download/software/src/vlc-1.0.0/extras/contrib/lib Undefined first referenced symbol in file acl_trivial /export/home/me/Download/software/src/vlc-1.0.0/extras/contrib/src/gettext/gettext-tools/gnulib-lib/.libs/libgettextlib.so ld: fatal: symbol referencing errors. No output written to .libs/msgcmp collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[6]: *** [msgcmp] Error 1 I have SUNWgnu-gettext installed. Googling "acl_trivial undefined" produced the following thread on the Videolan forums from last January: [url=http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=55185&start=0]./bootstrap not working OpenSolaris 2008.11[/url]. The Videolan people are helpful in that thread, but the upshot is that the GNU tools and libs on OpenSolaris are simply too broken for compiling VLC not to be a major undertaking. It's very sad that this situation has not changed with osol 2009.06. If the developers of osol are not going to provide binaries of such a basic program as VLC because of intellectual property issues, the least they could do is bring the GNU tools and libs into sufficient working order for VLC to compile. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
