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Installation for vlcj.

0. Manual installation

These instructions describe a manual installation of vlcj. You may choose 

instead to use maven to add vlcj to your project.

1. Unpack the distribution archive to a local directory, for example:

    $mkdir -p /home/java/vlcj

    $cd /home/java/vlcj

1.1 If using the gzipped package:

    $tar -xzf vlcj-2.2.0-dist.tar.gz

1.2 Or, if using the zipped package:

    $unzip -x vlcj-2.2.0-dist.zip

1.3 A new directory will be created, for example:

    /home/java/vlcj/vlcj-2.2.0

Inside this directory you will find all of the vlcj distribution artifacts and

third-party library dependencies:

    jna-3.4.0.jar                   - JNA binary jar file

    platform-3.4.0.jar              - JNA platform binary jar file

    vlcj-2.2.0.jar                  - vlcj binary jar file

    vlcj-2.2.0-javadoc.jar          - vlcj Javadoc archive

    vlcj-2.2.0-sources.jar          - vlcj source code archive

    vlcj-2.2.0-tests.jar            - vlcj tests binary jar file

    vlcj-2.2.0-test-sources.jar     - vlcj test sources

2. Using with Eclipse or some other IDE

The vlcj binary jar file contains manifest classpath entries to set up the

proper run-time classpath automatically. This means you only need add the vlcj

binary jar to your project and the dependent jar files will be automatically

included.

This will work so long as you keep all of the jar files in the same directory.

This works in Eclipse at least, other IDE's may have different behaviour.

If it does not work automatically, then you will have to add the JNA and JNA

platform jars explicitly.

3. Run the test application.

The tests jar file is executable and when executed the "basic" vlcj media player

test case will start.

    $java -jar vlcj-2.2.0-tests.jar

The tests jar contains manifest classpath entries to set up the proper run-time

classpath automatically.

This will work so long as you keep all of the jar files in the same directory.

4. Sources

The vlcj distribution contains all of the sources for the project (sources for

main and test classes are included). You are encouraged to link the sources to

your libraries in your IDE.