[vlc-devel] Re: MS Windows and VCD/libcdio things

[Gildas Bazin]

On Sunday 07 March 2004 17:56, R. Bernstein wrote:
> I've recently fixed up support in libcdio and vcdimager for windows 2K
> (and thus probably NT an XP). It works on win98 as well.
> 
> So I believe vlc should now work with using libcdio/vcdimager cdda and
> vcd plugins. I have however have not yet been able to build vlc, for
> reasons that at present have more to with vlc than with
> libcdio/vcdimager.  More on this below.
> 
> If others better versed with Microsoft Windows (and building vlc on
> that) would try out libcdio vcdimager (from CVS) I'd greatly
> appreciate it.
> 

I'll have a look when I'll have some time. Last time I tried (about a month 
ago) though to build libcdio, there where problems with libcddb and other 
things I don't remember.

> Here are some things I've run into using the recently released vlc
> 0.7.1 on Microsoft Windows 2000 and cygwin.
> 
> INSTALL.win32 says that vlc can be built with or without Unix
> emulation. Perhaps there is a special way to build libcdio and
> libvcdinfo without Unix emulation, but I get a link error (I think
> trying to use an printf routine) if I try without Unix emulation. So I
> tried with Unix emulation. That is *not* using this: 
>   CC="gcc -mno-cygwin" CXX="g++ -mno-cygwin"
> 
> when run with Unix emulation I get a number of other errors in
> configuring (e.g. dshow.h usuability, ffmpeg). Removing plugins listed
> in INSTALL.win32 is an option. One example of an error is due to a
> redefinition of struct RGNDATAHEADER between line 6009
> /usr/win32/include/strmif.h and line 2081
> /usr/include/w32api/wingdi.h.
> 
...
> 
> Commments? Lacking none, I'll probably change the bothcomment and the
> test.
> 
> Another compilation error had was due to include/modules.h lack of a
> definition for "module_handle_t". This test in that file
> 
> #elif defined(WIN32) || defined(UNDER_CE)
> 
> wasn't true. My guess is that WIN32 is supposed to get set. What is it
> that sets WIN32?  How do folks feel about change that to: 
> 
> #elif defined(WIN32) || defined(UNDER_CE) || defined(HAVE_DL_WINDOWS)
> 
> which is a test in config.h whereas WIN32 is not.
> 

To be honest, building with the posix emulation layer hasn't been tested for 
at least a year, mainly because there is strictly no point in doing this 
since VLC for win32 (native) has been completed and stable for quite a long 
time.

--
Gildas

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