vlc-recipe.sh

#!/bin/bash
# tested on Debian 7 and Ubuntu 14.04
set -e
set -x

export LANG=C

APP="VLC"
LOWERAPP="vlc"
JOBS=4

sudo apt-get -y update
sudo apt-get -y upgrade
sudo apt-get -y install --no-install-recommends \
  fuse git wget build-essential autoconf automake libtool pkg-config gettext \
  libasound2-dev libass-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libgtk2.0-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev libfreetype6-dev \
  libx11-dev libxext-dev libxinerama-dev libxpm-dev \
  libxcb-composite0-dev libxcb-keysyms1-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-shm0-dev libxcb-xv0-dev libxcb1-dev \
  liblua5.2-dev lua5.2 libmad0-dev liba52-0.7.4-dev libgcrypt11-dev libxml2-dev zlib1g-dev \
  libgl1-mesa-dev libdbus-1-dev libidn11-dev libnotify-dev libtag1-dev libva-dev libcddb2-dev libudev-dev \
  libogg-dev libvorbis-dev libtar-dev libpulse-dev librsvg2-dev \
  libqt4-dev-bin libqt4-dev libqt4-opengl-dev

VERSION=$(wget -q "https://www.videolan.org/vlc/#download" -O - | grep -o -E '"Linux","latestVersion":"([^"#]+)"' | cut -d'"' -f6)

mkdir -p vlc-build
cd vlc-build

# download
test -d ffmpeg || git clone --depth 1 -b release/2.8 "https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg.git" ffmpeg
test -d libdvdcss || git clone --depth 1 "http://code.videolan.org/videolan/libdvdcss.git"
test -d libdvdread || git clone --depth 1 "http://code.videolan.org/videolan/libdvdread.git"
test -d libdvdnav || git clone --depth 1 "http://code.videolan.org/videolan/libdvdnav.git"
test -d libbluray || git clone --depth 1 "http://git.videolan.org/git/libbluray.git"
wget -c "http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/releases/yasm-1.3.0.tar.gz"
wget -c "http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/$VERSION/vlc-$VERSION.tar.xz"

BUILD_ROOT="$PWD"
export PREFIX="$BUILD_ROOT/usr"
export PATH="$PREFIX/bin:$PATH"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig"
export CFLAGS="-O3 -fstack-protector -I$PREFIX/include"
export CXXFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
export CPPFLAGS="-I$PREFIX/include -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2"
export LDFLAGS="-Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--as-needed -L$PREFIX/lib"

# yasm
if [ ! -e ./usr/bin/yasm ]; then
  rm -rf yasm-1.3.0
  tar xf yasm-1.3.0.tar.gz
  cd yasm-1.3.0
  ./configure --prefix="$PREFIX"
  make -j$JOBS V=0
  make install-strip
  cd -
fi

# dvdcss
if [ ! -e ./usr/lib/libdvdcss.so ]; then
  cd libdvdcss
  autoreconf -if
  ./configure --prefix="$PREFIX" --enable-shared --disable-static
  make clean
  make -j$JOBS V=0
  make install-strip
  cd -
fi

# dvdread
if [ ! -e ./usr/lib/libdvdread.so ]; then
  cd libdvdread
  autoreconf -if
  ./configure --prefix="$PREFIX" --enable-shared --disable-static --with-libdvdcss
  make clean
  make -j$JOBS V=0
  make install-strip
  cd -
fi

# dvdnav
if [ ! -e ./usr/lib/libdvdnav.so ]; then
  cd libdvdnav
  autoreconf -if
  ./configure --prefix="$PREFIX" --enable-shared --disable-static
  make clean
  make -j$JOBS V=0
  make install-strip
  cd -
fi

# bluray
if [ ! -e ./usr/lib/libbluray.so ]; then
  cd libbluray
  git submodule init
  git submodule update
  autoreconf -if
  ./configure --prefix="$PREFIX" --enable-shared --disable-static --disable-bdjava-jar --disable-doxygen-doc
  make clean
  make -j$JOBS V=0
  make install-strip
  cd -
fi

# ffmpeg
if [ ! -e ./usr/lib/libavcodec.so ]; then
  cd ffmpeg
  ./configure --prefix="$PREFIX" --enable-shared --disable-static --disable-debug --disable-programs --disable-doc
  make clean
  make -j$JOBS
  make install
  cd -
fi

# vlc
rm -rf vlc-$VERSION
tar xf vlc-$VERSION.tar.xz
cd vlc-$VERSION
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-rpath --enable-skins2 --enable-libtar --disable-ncurses
#--enable-update-check
make -j$JOBS
make install-strip DESTDIR="$BUILD_ROOT"
cd -

# refresh cache
cd "$PREFIX/lib/vlc"
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$PREFIX/lib" ./vlc-cache-gen -f plugins
#rm -f vlc-cache-gen
cd -

# move to AppDir
rm -rf $APP.AppDir
mkdir $APP.AppDir
cd $APP.AppDir

# copy files
cp -r ../usr .
cp -r /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt4/plugins/ ./usr/lib/

# qt.conf
cat <<EOF> ./usr/bin/qt.conf
[Paths]
Plugins = ../lib/plugins
lib = ../lib
EOF

# delete unwanted files
cd usr
rm -vf bin/bd* bin/*asm lib/*.so
rm -vf $(find lib -name '*.la') $(find lib -name '*.a')
rm -rf include lib/pkgconfig share/doc share/man
cd -

# bundle AppImage
unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH
wget -c -q https://github.com/AppImage/AppImages/raw/master/functions.sh -O ../functions.sh
. ../functions.sh
copy_deps
move_lib
delete_blacklisted
rm -rf $(echo "$PWD" | cut -d '/' -f2)  # removes i.e. "home" from AppDir
get_desktop
fix_desktop ${LOWERAPP}.desktop
get_icon
patch_usr
get_apprun
cd ..
generate_appimage