[vlc-devel] compile VLC under cygwin is broken (vlc.exe does not run)

[Damien Fouilleul]

Cedric Cocquebert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Copy of a post in the forum 
> http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=40246
> --
> Two problems :
>
> First: Gettext 1.6 is not available on cygwin distrib (must compile)
> see http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=39275&p=125216
>
> Second: most *.dll files haven't been renamed by change 'cyg' prefix by 
> 'lib' in .libs directory, then the vlc.exe is corrupted (6656 bytes ...) and 
> when I call ./vlc.exe nothing happens ...
>
>   
you need to specify the --host=i686-pc-mingw32 in your configure line to 
make sure DLLs are not prefixed with cyg...
regarding vlc.exe, the 'real' vlc.exe is in .libs, the one created at 
the root of build dir seems to be a bootstrapper created by libtool.
if you want to test vlc from your build directory, just runs the libtool 
created ./vlc script, it will just work.

To debug you can even try

libtool --mode=execute gdb --args ./vlc -vvvvv

as one would on linux.

Damien

> Best regards 
>
>
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