VLC under windows

[Gildas Bazin]

On Tuesday 12 March 2002 13:40, zhang_vic wrote:
> HI, Dear Sir/Madam:
>=20
> Would you please answer me some questions about vlc?
> 1. Can I compile vlc's sourcecode in VC under windows?
> 2. if not, what I should do if I hope to compile it under window=20
platform?
>=20
>

You can compile vlc under windows :)
Here is a mail I sent a couple of weeks ago. Ask if you need some=20
more help.

PS: you should work from some recent source code. For this, take a=20
daily snapshot or use the cvs.
(Also, beware of the imdctsse plugin, it is buggy on windows and will=20
likely crash vlc)

--
Gildas

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Great news!

MSYS 1.0.5 is out and compiling vlc with it under windows is a piece=20
of cake=20
:)

For those who don't know MSYS, it's a minimal build environnement to=20
compile=20
unixish projects under windows. (it provides all the common unix=20
tools like=20
sh, gmake...).

To compile vlc under windows:
1. Download msys 1.0.5 and mingw 1.1 from www.mingw.org
2. follow the msys instructions (basically extract msys in c:\,=20
extract mingw in c:\msys\1.0\mingw. Becareful about CR/LF conversions=20
when you extract msys)
3. go into your vlc directory and type "MAKE=3Dgmake ./configure" and=20
then "MAKE=3Dgmake gmake"

And that's it :)

Well I had a few little problems but nothing serious: ./configure=20
doesn't pass the "ggc groks altivec" test and you have to kill the=20
cc1.exe process to unblock the script, also I had to run configure=20
twice to have defs.h created (?) and I sometimes had to re-run gmake=20
because it would complain that it couldn't create a .dep directory=20
(but as soon as you re-run it everything works)

Happy compiling.

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