Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 8.0

Chapter 29. Introduction to KDE

Phonon-backend-vlc-0.9.0

Introduction to the Phonon-backend-vlc

This package provides a Phonon backend which utilizes the VLC media framework.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-8.0 platform.

Package Information

Phonon-backend-vlc Dependencies

Required

phonon-4.9.1 and VLC-2.2.4

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/phonon-backend-vlc

Installation of Phonon-backend-vlc

[Note]

Note

This package unpacks to the directory phonon-vlc-0.9.0.

Install Phonon-backend-vlc by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr    \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib     \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release     \
      -DPHONON_BUILD_PHONON4QT5=ON   \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release: This switch is used to apply higher level of compiler optimizations.

-DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib: This switch is used to get libraries to install to /usr/lib instead of /usr/lib64 on a 64 bit system.

-DPHONON_BUILD_PHONON4QT5=ON: This switch is used to ensure that Qt5 version of the backend is built even if Qt4 is present.

Contents

Installed Program: none
Installed Libraries: phonon_vlc.so
Installed Directory: /usr/lib/qt5/plugins/phonon4qt5_backend

Last updated on 2017-02-20 12:59:39 -0800