basic win32 port

[Christophe Massiot]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2001, Samuel Hocevar wrote:

> > Actually, we planned to make an entire new branch of the project, ie a
> > vlc-windows repository in the CVS, so we wouldn't need to put so many
> > #ifdef in the code.
> 
>    Well, consider the work Gildas has done, it has required no major
> code additions and it already works. As for the additional #ifdefs,
> there are only 21 of them, which is acceptable, and I plan to drop this
> number down to about 10.
> 
>    Honestly, are there any real advantages in forking the repository ?

I must say that I agree with Sam on this.

>    (prepare yourself for the next episodes of our saga: why use DirectX
> since SDL is already done ?

Because DirectX has support for hardware acceleration.

-- 
Christophe Massiot.