OK, finally got the build to configure.
Earlier in the configure I had some errors about missing xcb dev libraries, so I installed the following:
libxcb-shm0-dev libxcb-xv0-dev libxcb-keysyms1-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-composite0-dev libx11-xcb-dev
Then I started getting the errors about the missing qtquickcontrols library.
After a bit of searching in apt I discovered that there was one missing qt quick package which I had to install manually:
qtquickcontrols2-5-dev
So it seems that after installing the build-deps for vlc and vlc-plugin-qt, you need to install the following packages:
Code:
sudo apt install libxcb-shm0-dev libxcb-xv0-dev libxcb-keysyms1-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-composite0-dev libx11-xcb-dev qtquickcontrols2-5-dev
Now the configure completes and I have started building vlc......
And it has built successfully!