<div>Hi, ALL,<br></div><div>This is my first post here, so please forgive me if it does not belong in this particular list.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm trying to compile VLC on Windows (7 64-bit Ultimate) following instructions here:</div>
<div><a href="http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32CompileMSYS">http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32CompileMSYS</a></div><div><br></div><div>However, I'm getting following error:</div><div><br></div><div>[code]</div><div>
alex@jupiter ~/vlc/extras/tools<br>$ make<br>(cd autoconf; ./configure --prefix=/home/alex/vlc/extras/tools/build && make && make install)<br>checking for a BSD-compatible install... /mingw/bin/install -c<br>
checking whether build environment is sane... yes<br>checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /mingw/bin/mkdir -p<br>checking for gawk... gawk<br>checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes<br>checking build system type... i686-pc-mingw32<br>
checking host system type... i686-pc-mingw32<br>configure: autobuild project... GNU Autoconf<br>configure: autobuild revision... 2.69<br>configure: autobuild hostname... jupiter<br>configure: autobuild timestamp... 20130524T181900Z<br>
checking whether /bin/sh -n is known to work... yes<br>checking for characters that cannot appear in file names... \\"<>*?|<br>checking whether directories can have trailing spaces... no<br>checking for expr... /mingw/bin/expr<br>
checking for GNU M4 that supports accurate traces... configure: error: no acceptable m4 could be found in $PATH.<br>GNU M4 1.4.6 or later is required; 1.4.16 or newer is recommended.<br>GNU M4 1.4.15 uses a buggy replacement strstr on some systems.<br>
Glibc 2.9 - 2.12 and GNU M4 1.4.11 - 1.4.15 have another strstr bug.<br>make: *** [.autoconf] Error 1
</div><div>[/code]</div><div><br></div><div>How can I fix it?</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you.</div><div><br></div>