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Ivshti / wcjs-prebuilt

Install pre-built WebChimera.js with bundled VLC for Electron
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VLC prebuilt is not static for linux #5

Closed Ivshti closed 8 years ago

Ivshti commented 8 years ago

Currently, the VLC prebuilt for linux is not static, which means it depends on libav, and some other less famous libraries.

The solution would be use the VLC "Contrib" method for static building, but it seems awfully error prone.

Ivshti commented 8 years ago

@jaruba static builds are shit for VLC, they do not work, as I suspected, since everybody in the linux community considers static builds to be the devil.

I fixed 10-15 compilation errors and hit a rock in the end with VLC static build.

I am ruling this out - the best solution would be to ship our apps in _.deb/_rpm and have libav / etc as deps.

RSATom commented 8 years ago

I am ruling this out - the best solution would be to ship our apps in .deb/rpm and have libav / etc as deps.

+1 or use ppa

jaruba commented 8 years ago

@Ivshti yeah, i looked into the matter myself too, the best solution i found was to package as deb that also triggers a install script, in the script i should add apt-get install for the required libs.

The dependency list is pretty big though.. https://wiki.videolan.org/Contrib_Status

It seems to have different dependencies if it's Ubuntu or Fedora though...

RSATom commented 8 years ago

apt-get manage dependencies itself, so it's enough just depend from vlc itself

Ivshti commented 8 years ago

@jaruba as @RSATom pointed out, when you're installing a deb in Ubuntu or another *.deb-based distro, it should handle deps by itself. Same for rpm.