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Kaido Kert72bde072021-03-12 15:55:15 -08001README - 9 December 2019
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3Welcome to the WebM VP8/VP9 Codec SDK!
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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.
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10 1. Prerequisites
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12 * All x86 targets require the Yasm[1] assembler be installed[2].
13 * All Windows builds require that Cygwin[3] be installed.
14 * Building the documentation requires Doxygen[4]. 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[5] and sha1sum.
17 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
20 source[6]. These requirements are optional if not running the unit
21 tests.
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23 [1]: http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm
24 [2]: For Visual Studio the base yasm binary (not vsyasm) should be in the
25 PATH for Visual Studio. For VS2017 it is sufficient to rename
26 yasm-<version>-<arch>.exe to yasm.exe and place it in:
27 Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2017/<level>/Common7/Tools/
28 [3]: http://www.cygwin.com
29 [4]: http://www.doxygen.org
30 [5]: http://curl.haxx.se
31 [6]: http://www.microbrew.org/tools/md5sha1sum/
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33 2. Out-of-tree builds
34 Out of tree builds are a supported method of building the application. For
35 an out of tree build, the source tree is kept separate from the object
36 files produced during compilation. For instance:
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38 $ mkdir build
39 $ cd build
40 $ ../libvpx/configure <options>
41 $ make
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43 3. Configuration options
44 The 'configure' script supports a number of options. The --help option can be
45 used to get a list of supported options:
46 $ ../libvpx/configure --help
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48 4. Compiler analyzers
49 Compilers have added sanitizers which instrument binaries with information
50 about address calculation, memory usage, threading, undefined behavior, and
51 other common errors. To simplify building libvpx with some of these features
52 use tools/set_analyzer_env.sh before running configure. It will set the
53 compiler and necessary flags for building as well as environment variables
54 read by the analyzer when testing the binaries.
55 $ source ../libvpx/tools/set_analyzer_env.sh address
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57 5. Cross development
58 For cross development, the most notable option is the --target option. The
59 most up-to-date list of supported targets can be found at the bottom of the
60 --help output of the configure script. As of this writing, the list of
61 available targets is:
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63 arm64-android-gcc
64 arm64-darwin-gcc
65 arm64-linux-gcc
66 arm64-win64-gcc
67 arm64-win64-vs15
68 armv7-android-gcc
69 armv7-darwin-gcc
70 armv7-linux-rvct
71 armv7-linux-gcc
72 armv7-none-rvct
73 armv7-win32-gcc
74 armv7-win32-vs14
75 armv7-win32-vs15
76 armv7s-darwin-gcc
77 armv8-linux-gcc
78 mips32-linux-gcc
79 mips64-linux-gcc
80 ppc64le-linux-gcc
81 sparc-solaris-gcc
82 x86-android-gcc
83 x86-darwin8-gcc
84 x86-darwin8-icc
85 x86-darwin9-gcc
86 x86-darwin9-icc
87 x86-darwin10-gcc
88 x86-darwin11-gcc
89 x86-darwin12-gcc
90 x86-darwin13-gcc
91 x86-darwin14-gcc
92 x86-darwin15-gcc
93 x86-darwin16-gcc
94 x86-darwin17-gcc
95 x86-iphonesimulator-gcc
96 x86-linux-gcc
97 x86-linux-icc
98 x86-os2-gcc
99 x86-solaris-gcc
100 x86-win32-gcc
101 x86-win32-vs14
102 x86-win32-vs15
103 x86-win32-vs16
104 x86_64-android-gcc
105 x86_64-darwin9-gcc
106 x86_64-darwin10-gcc
107 x86_64-darwin11-gcc
108 x86_64-darwin12-gcc
109 x86_64-darwin13-gcc
110 x86_64-darwin14-gcc
111 x86_64-darwin15-gcc
112 x86_64-darwin16-gcc
113 x86_64-darwin17-gcc
114 x86_64-darwin18-gcc
115 x86_64-darwin19-gcc
116 x86_64-iphonesimulator-gcc
117 x86_64-linux-gcc
118 x86_64-linux-icc
119 x86_64-solaris-gcc
120 x86_64-win64-gcc
121 x86_64-win64-vs14
122 x86_64-win64-vs15
123 x86_64-win64-vs16
124 generic-gnu
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126 The generic-gnu target, in conjunction with the CROSS environment variable,
127 can be used to cross compile architectures that aren't explicitly listed, if
128 the toolchain is a cross GNU (gcc/binutils) toolchain. Other POSIX toolchains
129 will likely work as well. For instance, to build using the mipsel-linux-uclibc
130 toolchain, the following command could be used (note, POSIX SH syntax, adapt
131 to your shell as necessary):
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133 $ CROSS=mipsel-linux-uclibc- ../libvpx/configure
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135 In addition, the executables to be invoked can be overridden by specifying the
136 environment variables: CC, AR, LD, AS, STRIP, NM. Additional flags can be
137 passed to these executables with CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, and ASFLAGS.
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139 6. Configuration errors
140 If the configuration step fails, the first step is to look in the error log.
141 This defaults to config.log. This should give a good indication of what went
142 wrong. If not, contact us for support.
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144VP8/VP9 TEST VECTORS:
145 The test vectors can be downloaded and verified using the build system after
146 running configure. To specify an alternate directory the
147 LIBVPX_TEST_DATA_PATH environment variable can be used.
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149 $ ./configure --enable-unit-tests
150 $ LIBVPX_TEST_DATA_PATH=../libvpx-test-data make testdata
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152CODE STYLE:
153 The coding style used by this project is enforced with clang-format using the
154 configuration contained in the .clang-format file in the root of the
155 repository.
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157 Before pushing changes for review you can format your code with:
158 # Apply clang-format to modified .c, .h and .cc files
159 $ clang-format -i --style=file \
160 $(git diff --name-only --diff-filter=ACMR '*.[hc]' '*.cc')
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162 Check the .clang-format file for the version used to generate it if there is
163 any difference between your local formatting and the review system.
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165 See also: http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormat.html
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167SUPPORT
168 This library is an open source project supported by its community. Please
169 email webm-discuss@webmproject.org for help.
170