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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Does anyone hope/plan/intend on getting VLC working under the Cygwin build environment?</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Yesterday I went in and tweaked both configure.ac and autopoint, so the VLC build process (bootstrap/configure, from install.win32) would get to the point of running configure. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Running configure, you get:</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">checking build system type... i686-pc-cygwin</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">checking host system type... i686-pc-cygwin</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">As configure trundles along, it reaches the configure code:</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">echo $ECHO_N "checking for libs in extras/contrib... $ECHO_C" >&6; }</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> topdir="`dirname $0`"</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> if test "`echo \"$topdir\" | cut -c 1`" != "/"; then</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> topdir="`pwd`/$topdir"</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> fi</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> if test "`grep HOST ${topdir}/extras/contrib/config.mak 2>/dev/null|awk '{print $3}'`" != "`$CC -dumpmachine`"; then</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> if test "${with_contrib}" = "yes"; then</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: no" >&5</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">echo "${ECHO_T}no" >&6; }</FONT>
<BR> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">{ { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: not using the libs in extras/contrib as it is not the same host" >&5</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">echo "$as_me: error: not using the libs in extras/contrib as it is not the same host" >&2;}</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> { (exit 1); exit 1; }; }</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> else</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: no" >&5</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">echo "${ECHO_T}no" >&6; }</FONT>
<BR> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">{ echo "$as_me:$LINENO: WARNING: not using the libs in extras/contrib as it is not the same host" >&5</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">echo "$as_me: WARNING: not using the libs in extras/contrib as it is not the same host" >&2;}</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> fi</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">I did get the warning generated, as config.mak in extras/contrib shows:</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">BUILD = i686-pc-cygwin</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">HOST = i686-pc-mingw</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Anyhow, any docs out there on a working mingw environment to build VLC? Not being able to build under Windows would be a drag.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Thanks.</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Mark</FONT>
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