There are 2 modes for building the medialibrary. With libvlc dependency, and without.

Usually, unless you're building for integration with VLC desktop, you'll want to enable the libvlc integration. Please note that libvlc is required to build and run the tests.

If you want to disable libvlc, you can do so by passing -Dlibvlc=disabled to meson when configuring the build.

• libvlc
• libvlcpp (available as a git submodule)
• libsqlite3 (>= 3.33.0)
• libjpeg (only when using libvlc 3)
• rapidjson when building the functional tests

• meson
• ninja

If some of your dependencies are not installed in a default location, you'll need to point meson to that folder by using PKG_CONFIG_PATH and point it to the folder that contains your .pc files

The minimal command to setup the build is:

cd /path/to/medialibrary
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/path/to/custom/lib/pkconfig meson build-folder

You can omit the PKG_CONFIG_PATH if all your dependencies are installed in the standard/default locations.

Once configured, building is just a matter of invoking ninja

cd build-folder
ninja

If the libvlc dependency was found, then the tests will be build automatically when required.

You can launch them using either

ninja test

or

meson test

If you only want to run the unit tests, you can do so by running

meson test --suite unittest

and similarly for functional tests:

meson test --suite functional

You can find more options on how to tweak the test runs in the meson tests documention