[vlc-devel] Re: Compiling VLC 0.6.0 for windows XP.

Sam Hocevar sam at zoy.org
Mon Jul 7 21:20:58 CEST 2003


On Mon, Jul 07, 2003, David Filion wrote:

> I am compiling VLC from source under Cygwin.  The problem I have come 
> across is that I cannot move the executable.  I can run vlc.exe in the 
> directory in which it is created (c:\cygwin\home\username\vlc) but if I 
> move it (to c:\temp for example) it will not execute (no errors are 
> given).

   VLC expects at least a "modules" directory to be present in the same
directory as the executable and containing its plugins (all the .dll
files that were compiled in the source tree's modules/ directory).

-- 
Sam.
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