[vlc-devel] VLC and Windows

Rafaël Carré funman at videolan.org
Fri Sep 21 20:33:33 CEST 2007


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Tony Anecito a écrit :
> Hi Rafael,
> I agree with Bill. And I have asked for help and
> usually get the response "change to a different build
> system" or "sorry our build environment is not Cygwin
> but we cross compile for windows" YET the dlls they
> claim to have built are NEVER EVER made avialable for
> distribution for testing. So I continue to struggle
> with every change that is made and spend weeks getting
> a windows build (maybe). I have spent weeks when my
> builds work helping the team fix windows and java bugs
> that do go into the builds.

I never compiled the java bindings, I may do that when I'll be back.

> I like some others do work in the CORP environment and
> changing the build environment so rapidly is looked
> upon in a very negative manner. I have also worked for
> 23+ years doing software development and understand
> the need of what you ask but like Bill I see a 50%
> windows user base in the forums and wonder the risk of
> of losing people supporting development of that
> platform by removing or changing drastically the build
> support.

The build environment is getting fixed, and there is still a lot of work
todo, even if those days it seems to be very stable, and there are only
minor changes.

> All I want is the dlls that the Linux group (JVLC)
> claims to have built for windows yet never distribute.
> I have asked repeatedly and was met with silence
> (probably from what I have seen thier builds really no
> longer work). Remember, I am the windows developer who
> suggested fixes but if I do not have stable
> environment to work in then I can not help the team.
> 
> Regards,
> -Tony

You'd better ask directly the JVLC developer.

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Rafaël Carré
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