[vlc-commits] Remove INSTALL.win32

Wed Sep 7 19:59:29 CEST 2011

vlc | branch: master | Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org> | Wed Sep  7 19:46:11 2011 +0200| [7e4d0edc0708613df89a82cf44da245acce5cfce] | committer: Jean-Baptiste Kempf

Remove INSTALL.win32

> http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/vlc.git/?a=commit;h=7e4d0edc0708613df89a82cf44da245acce5cfce
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 INSTALL.win32 |  131 ---------------------------------------------------------
 Makefile.am   |    1 -
 README        |    1 -
 3 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 133 deletions(-)

diff --git a/INSTALL.win32 b/INSTALL.win32
deleted file mode 100644
index c94fe3b..0000000
--- a/INSTALL.win32
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,131 +0,0 @@
-INSTALL file for the Windows XP/Vista/Seven version of VLC media player
-
-
-Running VLC
-===========
-
-If you are using a binary release from videolan.org or if you have already built
-VLC (see below), just run 'vlc.exe'.
-
-You can also run VLC from a dos command box, in which case you'll be able
-to use the command line arguments. You can obtain a list of these command
-line arguments by typing 'vlc --help' or 'vlc --help --advanced'.
-
-To store a debug log of the current VLC session, you can use
-'vlc -vvv --extraintf=logger'. You will end-up with a vlc-log.txt file in
-your current directory.
-
-Additional documentation is available at http://www.videolan.org/doc/ and http://wiki.videolan.org/.
-
-
-Building VLC from the source code
-=================================
-
-If you want to build VLC from sources, you can do it in several ways:
-
-- On GNU/Linux, using the mingw32 cross-compiler.
-  This is the preferred method, as this is the one used by VideoLAN to
-  build the official Windows binaries.
-
-- natively on Windows, using MSYS+MINGW (www.mingw.org)
-  (MSYS is a minimal build environment to compile Unixish projects under
-  windows. It provides all the common Unix tools like sh, gmake...)
-
-UNSUPPORTED METHOD
-------------------
-
-- natively on Windows, using cygwin (www.cygwin.com) with or without the
-  POSIX emulation layer.
-  Read http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32CompileCygwinNew to have a complete HOWTO
-
-
-Getting the right compiler tools
-================================
-
-- cross-compiling with mingw32:
-You first need to download a GNU/Linux cross-compiler version of mingw32.
-
-For Debian GNU/Linux users, you can use the gcc-mingw32, mingw32-binutils and
-mingw32-runtime packages.
-For Fedora users, you can use mingw-binutils, mingw-gcc-core, mingw-gcc-g++
-
-For MingW and Cygwin, please refer to our Wiki:
-- http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32CompileMSYS
-- http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32CompileCygwin
-
-
-Getting the additional libraries
-=================================
-
-VLC depends on many other libraries to provide some features like most of the codecs.
-
-Usually, you don't want to compile those by yourself, so use pre-compiled ones.
-
-* We also provide a package with all the libraries already compiled so it is
-  actually really easy to compile a full-featured version of vlc (these compiled
-  libraries will only work with mingw or cygwin):
-  http://download.videolan.org/pub/testing/win32/contrib-201xxxxx-win32-bin-gcc-x.x.x-runtime-x.xx.x-only.tar.bz2
-  (Check out for more recent versions at the same location). 
-
-  All you need to do is extract it in your root directory (the include files
-  and libraries will be put in /usr/win32). You can do this with the following
-  command: 
-
-    tar xjvf contrib-20110614-win32-bin-gcc-4.4.4-runtime-3.15.2-only.tar.bz2 -C /
-
-  Please note the "-C /".
-
-* An automated way of building the contrib libraries is provided in 
-  extra/contrib. It will download, configure and build the libraries.
-  See the extras/contrib/README for more info.
-
-
-Configuring the build
-=====================
-
-Once you've got all the files you need in place, you need to configure the
-build with the `./configure' script.
-
-I'll assume that you are using the pre-compiled 3rd party libraries we are
-providing and that they are in /usr/win32.
-
-If you are cross-compiling from Debian, you can use this:
-
-  sh extras/package/win32/configure-mingw.sh
-
-
-If you are compiling with MSYS/MINGW, then you can use this:
-
-  sh extras/package/win32/configure-msys.sh
-
-
-If you are using cygwin, you should build VLC without the POSIX emulation layer.
-Use this:
-
-  sh extras/package/win32/configure-cygwin.sh
-
-See `./configure --help' for more information.
-
-
-Actually Compiling the VLC source
-=================================
-
-Once configured, to build VLC, just run `make'.
-
-Once the compilation is done, you can either run VLC directly from the source
-tree or you can build self-contained VLC packages with the following
-'make' rules:
-
-  make package-win-base
-   will create a subdirectory named vlc-x.x.x with all the binaries
-   'stripped' (ie. without any debugging symbols).
-
-  make package-win32-zip
-   Same as above but will package the directory in a zip file.
-
-  make package-win32
-   Same as above but will also create an auto-installer package. You will need
-   to have NSIS installed in its default location for this to work.
-
-Well done, now you're ready to use VLC!
-=======================================
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 6e47206..4b92e34 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ SUBDIRS += test
 
 EXTRA_DIST = \
 	HACKING \
-	INSTALL.win32 \
 	extras/package/win32/vlc.exe.manifest \
 	extras/package/win32/libvlc.dll.manifest \
 	extras/package/macosx/README.MacOSX.rtf \
diff --git a/README b/README
index 8ece0f5..ecf0310 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ COPYING            - The GPL license.
 ChangeLog          - The VLC ChangeLog.
 HACKING            - Hacking VLC.
 INSTALL            - Installation instructions.
-INSTALL.win32      - Installation instructions for the Win32 version of VLC.
 NEWS               - Important modifications between the releases.
 README             - This file.
 THANKS             - All VLC contributors.

