[vlc-devel] Documentation on setting up a mingw environment?

[Mark Moriarty]

Does anyone hope/plan/intend on getting VLC working under the Cygwin build
environment?

Yesterday I went in and tweaked both configure.ac and autopoint, so the VLC
build process (bootstrap/configure, from install.win32) would get to the
point of running configure.  

Running configure, you get:
checking build system type... i686-pc-cygwin
checking host system type... i686-pc-cygwin

As configure trundles along, it reaches the configure code:
echo $ECHO_N "checking for libs in extras/contrib... $ECHO_C" >&6; }
    topdir="`dirname $0`"
    if test "`echo \"$topdir\" | cut -c 1`" != "/"; then
       topdir="`pwd`/$topdir"
    fi
   if test "`grep HOST ${topdir}/extras/contrib/config.mak 2>/dev/null|awk
'{print $3}'`" != "`$CC -dumpmachine`"; then
      if test "${with_contrib}" = "yes"; then
        { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: no" >&5
echo "${ECHO_T}no" >&6; }
	{ { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error:  not using the libs in
extras/contrib as it is not the same host" >&5
echo "$as_me: error:  not using the libs in extras/contrib as it is not the
same host" >&2;}
   { (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
      else
        { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: no" >&5
echo "${ECHO_T}no" >&6; }
	{ echo "$as_me:$LINENO: WARNING:  not using the libs in
extras/contrib as it is not the same host" >&5
echo "$as_me: WARNING:  not using the libs in extras/contrib as it is not
the same host" >&2;}
      fi

I did get the warning generated, as config.mak in extras/contrib shows:
BUILD = i686-pc-cygwin
HOST = i686-pc-mingw

Anyhow, any docs out there on a working mingw environment to build VLC?  Not
being able to build under Windows would be a drag.

Thanks.

Mark
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