[vlc-devel] Re: help compiling win32 plugin

[Graeme Ogilvie]

Well, I've made a bit of progress because my bootstrap process seems to
work fine (at least it doesn't hang).

I had one problem which was staring at me all afternoon until I just
suddenly noticed what it was.....

=============================================================
IMPORTANT NOTE: your version of automake has a bug which will
prevent proper plugin compilation. Either compile VLC with
the --disable-plugins flag, or use a version of automake newer
than 1.6.1 (1.6.2 is OK, and so are the 1.5 series).

And then I remembered the MsysDTK that you pointed to me uses
automake-1.6.1.

Any ideas on how to update it?

It then starts to run the configure script, but gets stuck at the C
compiler output - not sure if this is due to the automake problem or
not.

configure: loading site script /etc/config.site
checking build system type... i386-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i586-pc-mingw32msvc
checking target system type... i586-pc-mingw32msvc
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for i586-mingw32msvc-strip... i586-mingw32msvc-strip
checking for i586-mingw32msvc-gcc... i586-mingw32msvc-gcc
checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler
cannot create executables

Graeme

P.S.  I am documenting this procedure on how to setup a build
environment under Windows as I go along :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: vlc-devel-bounce at videolan.org
[mailto:vlc-devel-bounce at videolan.org] On Behalf Of Gildas Bazin
Sent: 09 October 2002 14:06
To: vlc-devel at videolan.org
Subject: [vlc-devel] Re: help compiling win32 plugin


On Wednesday 09 October 2002 14:32, Graeme Ogilvie wrote:
> You weren't kidding... It really is a pain.
> 
> I know that I'm missing some components, and while I'm used to 
> building apps under Windows, I'm not as familiar under a unix-type 
> environment.
> 
> I appear to be missing automake & perl so I'm not even getting through

> the bootstrap script - any ideas of what versions I should be running?
> 

Ah, you are trying to compile the development version of vlc (aka
vlc-0.5)! This is why you've got all these problems.

The win32 port hasn't been able to keep-up with all the recent changes
in 
vlc-0.5. These are the things that are known to be problematic right now
in 
the development branch:

- The build system doesn't appear to be working anymore when run under 
MSYS+MINGW. It looks like an automake problem (the bootstrap script 
MSYS+hangs
when generating the Makefiles).
By the way, you can try this on you computer maybe you'll have more luck

than me. But you'll need to to download and install the MSYS-DTK 
(development toolkit) which provides automake and autoconf.
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=89960

- With a recent cvs snapshot you can also try to compile vlc with the
cygwin 
environment (www.cygwin.com). However building vlc with cygwin hasn't
been 
fully tested yet and my be problematic.

- The MSVC project files are unmaintained and way out of date. But you
could 
maybe try to update them and send us the changes for inclusion ( it
might 
not be that easy ;).

- The audio outputs are currently broken on Win32 (waveout and directx 
plugins), but I should be able to fix that shortly.

To summarize the situation about the build system. The only one that is 
known to work perfectly and tested regularly is cross-compiling under 
Linux.

Hope this helps,

--
Gildas
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