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Johannbb5a39c2015-03-23 15:33:17 -07001README - 23 March 2015
John Koleszar0ea50ce2010-05-18 11:58:33 -04002
Paweł Hajdan9ab47772013-08-01 20:08:42 -07003Welcome to the WebM VP8/VP9 Codec SDK!
John Koleszar0ea50ce2010-05-18 11:58:33 -04004
5COMPILING THE APPLICATIONS/LIBRARIES:
6 The build system used is similar to autotools. Building generally consists of
7 "configuring" with your desired build options, then using GNU make to build
8 the application.
9
10 1. Prerequisites
John Koleszar94c52e42010-06-18 12:39:21 -040011
John Koleszar0ea50ce2010-05-18 11:58:33 -040012 * All x86 targets require the Yasm[1] assembler be installed.
13 * All Windows builds require that Cygwin[2] be installed.
James Zernf8630c72014-05-10 11:15:11 -070014 * Building the documentation requires Doxygen[3]. If you do not
15 have this package, the install-docs option will be disabled.
16 * Downloading the data for the unit tests requires curl[4] and sha1sum.
John Koleszar00748632012-06-20 14:45:22 -070017 sha1sum is provided via the GNU coreutils, installed by default on
18 many *nix platforms, as well as MinGW and Cygwin. If coreutils is not
19 available, a compatible version of sha1sum can be built from
James Zernf8630c72014-05-10 11:15:11 -070020 source[5]. These requirements are optional if not running the unit
John Koleszar00748632012-06-20 14:45:22 -070021 tests.
John Koleszar94c52e42010-06-18 12:39:21 -040022
John Koleszar0ea50ce2010-05-18 11:58:33 -040023 [1]: http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm
24 [2]: http://www.cygwin.com
James Zernf8630c72014-05-10 11:15:11 -070025 [3]: http://www.doxygen.org
26 [4]: http://curl.haxx.se
27 [5]: http://www.microbrew.org/tools/md5sha1sum/
John Koleszar94c52e42010-06-18 12:39:21 -040028
John Koleszar0ea50ce2010-05-18 11:58:33 -040029 2. Out-of-tree builds
30 Out of tree builds are a supported method of building the application. For
31 an out of tree build, the source tree is kept separate from the object
32 files produced during compilation. For instance:
33
34 $ mkdir build
35 $ cd build
36 $ ../libvpx/configure <options>
37 $ make
38
39 3. Configuration options
40 The 'configure' script supports a number of options. The --help option can be
41 used to get a list of supported options:
42 $ ../libvpx/configure --help
43
44 4. Cross development
45 For cross development, the most notable option is the --target option. The
46 most up-to-date list of supported targets can be found at the bottom of the
47 --help output of the configure script. As of this writing, the list of
48 available targets is:
49
John Koleszar0ea50ce2010-05-18 11:58:33 -040050 armv6-darwin-gcc
51 armv6-linux-rvct
52 armv6-linux-gcc
Paweł Hajdan9ab47772013-08-01 20:08:42 -070053 armv6-none-rvct
Tom Finegane87d6812014-06-25 18:32:16 -070054 arm64-darwin-gcc
Fritz Koenigd8305732012-01-06 11:50:05 -080055 armv7-android-gcc
Paweł Hajdan9ab47772013-08-01 20:08:42 -070056 armv7-darwin-gcc
John Koleszar0ea50ce2010-05-18 11:58:33 -040057 armv7-linux-rvct
58 armv7-linux-gcc
Paweł Hajdan9ab47772013-08-01 20:08:42 -070059 armv7-none-rvct
60 armv7-win32-vs11
Yaowu Xua638bdf2013-11-13 11:36:32 -080061 armv7-win32-vs12
Ghislain MARY3067c342015-07-28 16:37:09 +020062 armv7-win32-vs14
Tom Finegancd2088b2014-06-10 18:52:58 -070063 armv7s-darwin-gcc
John Koleszar0ea50ce2010-05-18 11:58:33 -040064 mips32-linux-gcc
Gordana Cmiljanovic1c31e3e2014-08-07 19:09:47 +020065 mips64-linux-gcc
Paweł Hajdan9ab47772013-08-01 20:08:42 -070066 sparc-solaris-gcc
67 x86-android-gcc
John Koleszar0ea50ce2010-05-18 11:58:33 -040068 x86-darwin8-gcc
69 x86-darwin8-icc
70 x86-darwin9-gcc
71 x86-darwin9-icc
Paweł Hajdan9ab47772013-08-01 20:08:42 -070072 x86-darwin10-gcc
73 x86-darwin11-gcc
74 x86-darwin12-gcc
75 x86-darwin13-gcc
Johannbb5a39c2015-03-23 15:33:17 -070076 x86-darwin14-gcc
Tom Finegancd2088b2014-06-10 18:52:58 -070077 x86-iphonesimulator-gcc
John Koleszar0ea50ce2010-05-18 11:58:33 -040078 x86-linux-gcc
79 x86-linux-icc
Paweł Hajdan9ab47772013-08-01 20:08:42 -070080 x86-os2-gcc
John Koleszar0ea50ce2010-05-18 11:58:33 -040081 x86-solaris-gcc
Paweł Hajdan9ab47772013-08-01 20:08:42 -070082 x86-win32-gcc
John Koleszar0ea50ce2010-05-18 11:58:33 -040083 x86-win32-vs7
84 x86-win32-vs8
Paweł Hajdan9ab47772013-08-01 20:08:42 -070085 x86-win32-vs9
86 x86-win32-vs10
87 x86-win32-vs11
Yaowu Xua638bdf2013-11-13 11:36:32 -080088 x86-win32-vs12
Ghislain MARY3067c342015-07-28 16:37:09 +020089 x86-win32-vs14
James Zern5da87e82015-07-24 14:24:20 -070090 x86_64-android-gcc
John Koleszar0ea50ce2010-05-18 11:58:33 -040091 x86_64-darwin9-gcc
Paweł Hajdan9ab47772013-08-01 20:08:42 -070092 x86_64-darwin10-gcc
93 x86_64-darwin11-gcc
94 x86_64-darwin12-gcc
95 x86_64-darwin13-gcc
Johannbb5a39c2015-03-23 15:33:17 -070096 x86_64-darwin14-gcc
Tom Finegancd2088b2014-06-10 18:52:58 -070097 x86_64-iphonesimulator-gcc
John Koleszar0ea50ce2010-05-18 11:58:33 -040098 x86_64-linux-gcc
Paweł Hajdan9ab47772013-08-01 20:08:42 -070099 x86_64-linux-icc
John Koleszar0ea50ce2010-05-18 11:58:33 -0400100 x86_64-solaris-gcc
Paweł Hajdan9ab47772013-08-01 20:08:42 -0700101 x86_64-win64-gcc
John Koleszar0ea50ce2010-05-18 11:58:33 -0400102 x86_64-win64-vs8
Paweł Hajdan9ab47772013-08-01 20:08:42 -0700103 x86_64-win64-vs9
104 x86_64-win64-vs10
105 x86_64-win64-vs11
Yaowu Xua638bdf2013-11-13 11:36:32 -0800106 x86_64-win64-vs12
Ghislain MARY3067c342015-07-28 16:37:09 +0200107 x86_64-win64-vs14
John Koleszar0ea50ce2010-05-18 11:58:33 -0400108 generic-gnu
109
110 The generic-gnu target, in conjunction with the CROSS environment variable,
111 can be used to cross compile architectures that aren't explicitly listed, if
112 the toolchain is a cross GNU (gcc/binutils) toolchain. Other POSIX toolchains
113 will likely work as well. For instance, to build using the mipsel-linux-uclibc
114 toolchain, the following command could be used (note, POSIX SH syntax, adapt
115 to your shell as necessary):
116
Johanna31a58d2010-10-07 14:13:36 -0400117 $ CROSS=mipsel-linux-uclibc- ../libvpx/configure
John Koleszar0ea50ce2010-05-18 11:58:33 -0400118
119 In addition, the executables to be invoked can be overridden by specifying the
120 environment variables: CC, AR, LD, AS, STRIP, NM. Additional flags can be
121 passed to these executables with CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, and ASFLAGS.
122
123 5. Configuration errors
124 If the configuration step fails, the first step is to look in the error log.
James Zerne636af12013-07-18 14:17:00 -0700125 This defaults to config.log. This should give a good indication of what went
John Koleszar0ea50ce2010-05-18 11:58:33 -0400126 wrong. If not, contact us for support.
127
James Zern4bbca2e2014-05-30 16:37:39 -0700128VP8/VP9 TEST VECTORS:
129 The test vectors can be downloaded and verified using the build system after
130 running configure. To specify an alternate directory the
131 LIBVPX_TEST_DATA_PATH environment variable can be used.
132
133 $ ./configure --enable-unit-tests
134 $ LIBVPX_TEST_DATA_PATH=../libvpx-test-data make testdata
135
John Koleszar0ea50ce2010-05-18 11:58:33 -0400136SUPPORT
137 This library is an open source project supported by its community. Please
John Koleszar00748632012-06-20 14:45:22 -0700138 please email webm-discuss@webmproject.org for help.
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