[vlc-devel] Re: MSVC Compile HOWTO

[Mark Moriarty]

Good stuff :)

Maybe put it on the developers documentation page? 

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From: vlc-devel-bounce at videolan.org [mailto:vlc-devel-bounce at videolan.org]
On Behalf Of Steve Lhomme
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 5:33 AM
To: vlc-devel at videolan.org
Subject: [vlc-devel] MSVC Compile HOWTO

Hi,

As thedj requested a little doc on how to compile VLC using MSVC, here it
is. It was tested on a source snapshot from 28/03/2005.

The necessary project files for MSVC6 can be found in the "msvc/" 
directory. The project file to load is "vlc.dsw". Newer version of MSVC
(7 and 7.1) can import MSVC6 project files on load.

On load you might want to set "vlc" as the default project to compile.

By default vlc.exe is build in the "msvc/" directory and the plugins are
built in "msvc/plugins/" and so will be automatically loaded when you run
vlc.exe.

By default no plugin is compiled. You need to select them by yourself. 
Either by adding dependencies to the "vlc" project (like "vlc" depends on
"plugin_dummy") or build them manually (when you select one as your startup
project for example).

Depending on the plugin you might need to adjust the library and include
paths of the project or MSVC to find the matching library (for example
"plugin_mkv" uses libebml and libmatroska).

Some plugins might not build on MSVC too (for example if they depend on
gcc-only libraries) like "plugin_ffmpeg". This is a major drawback as
without ffmpeg, you can't decode much formats. I managed to compile it using
a libavcodec.dll that I built on Linux, then generating the .lib
corresponding to this DLL to be used when linkling "plugin_ffmpeg". But it
doesn't work well and I don't remember how I generated this DLL. Note that
the ones you find with FFDShow won't work. If needed I could make my DLL and
LIB available.

I didn't manage to compile a working "plugin_wxwindows" with MSVC. SO I'm
using a pre-built version from the nightly builds. I had to change the texts
in msvc/config.h like this (ot match the date of the nightly
build) :

#define MODULE_SUFFIX "__0_8_2_svn_20050301"
#define MODULE_SYMBOL 0_8_2_svn_20050301 #define PACKAGE_STRING "vlc
0.8.2-svn-20050301"
#define PACKAGE_VERSION "0.8.2-svn-20050301"
#define VERSION "0.8.2-svn-20050301"
#define VERSION_MESSAGE "0.8.2-svn-20050301 Janus"






Some of them might not be needed, but it works for me...

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