Which packages do I need ? ¶

You will need about 200 megabytes of available diskspace, this includes the packages below and the space needed for building veejay.

    * subversion
    * cvs
    * build-essentials
    * autogen
    * autotools-dev
    * autoconf
    * automake1.8
    * libtool
    * libsdl1.2-dev
    * libjack0.100.0-dev
    * libquicktime-dev
    * libxml2-dev
    * libglade2-dev
    * libgtk2.0-dev 

Which packages do I need to compile myself ? ¶

    * mjpegtools 


        If there is a compile error in Region2D.hh, complaining about 'assert' insert a line in top of the file '#include <assert.h>'

    * libunicap
    * FFmpeg
    * GTK Cairo

            cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.cairographics.org:/cvs/cairo co gtkcairo
            cd gtkcairo
            sh autogen.sh
            ./configure && make && sudo make install

WARNING ¶

I use ffmpeg from source, I suggest you do the same. There are unmet dependencies in libavcodec-dev and libavformat-dev that relate to ogg,vorbis,theora, *1394* packages in Ubuntu 6.06.

 $ sudo apt-get remove libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev
 $ svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
 $ cd ffmpeg
 $ ./configure --help

Disable what you dont need, then:

 $ ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared ...
 $ make && make install

And continue building veejay
Building veejay ¶

Check if the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable has been set properly.

 $ echo $PKG_CONFIG_PATH

If you just ran 'configure' and 'make' for mjpegtools,libunicap etc, check if the accompanying .pc files are in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig

 $ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig

To get the latest veejay:

  $ svn co svn://dyne.org/veejay/trunk/veejay-current

To build a veejay optimized for speed:

 $ sh autogen.sh
 $ ./configure 
 $ make && sudo make install

To build a veejay to send usefull bugreports:

 $ sh autogen.sh
 $ ./configure --enable-debug
 $ make && sudo make install