[vlc-devel] Win32CompileMSYS

Jean-Baptiste Kempf jb at videolan.org
Tue Jan 29 23:20:25 CET 2008 

As you might have read on the wiki page, the recommended way to compile
VLC natively is Cygwin.

It does build without too many problems, but the wiki is a bit out of
date.

Having someone build VLC under MSVC has not been heard since some time,
but shouldn't be impossible if you are a MSVC hackerz, and if you don't
try to rebuild the contribs, but use the contribs done by the VideoLAN
Team... However, we don't know any MSVC hackerz able to do that.

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008, Noor-E-Saba Hakim wrote :
> Dear all,
> 
> I've never used msys and mingw, but I tried to compile vlc using these
> tools following the instructions found at
> 
> http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32CompileMSYS#Introduction
> 
> While following the instructions, it was proceeding fine upto setting up
> Libtool. But during next step for setting up AutoConf, the command
> "./mingwPORT.sh" gave me the following result ending with errors:
> 
> "
> saba at DUALITY ~/autoconf-2.59-mingwPORT/autoconf-2.59/mingwPORT
> $ ./mingwPORT.sh
> Download file? (Yes)
> Download file URI? (http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf)
> Archive file type?
> 0) unknown
> 1) tar.gz
> 2) tgz
> 3) tar.bz2
> 4) tbz2
> 5) zip
> Select a numeric value: (3)
> Archive file? (autoconf-2.59.tar.bz2)
> Download to path? (/tmp)
> Source path? (/usr/src/autoconf-2.59)
> Installation directory? (/mingw)
> CFLAGS (-O3 -s -mms-bitfields -march=i686)
> --16:14:19--  http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.59.tar.bz2
>            => `autoconf-2.59.tar.bz2'
> Resolving ftp.gnu.org... 140.186.70.20
> Connecting to ftp.gnu.org[140.186.70.20]:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 925,073 [application/x-tar]
> 
>     0K .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........  5%  142.86
> KB/s
> ....
> ....
> ....
> autoconf-2.59/doc/autoconf.info
> autoconf-2.59/doc/standards.info
>       0 [main] sh 3936 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to
> sh.exe.stackdump
>       0 [main] sh 3704 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to
> sh.exe.stackdump
>       0 [main] sh 4068 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to
> sh.exe.stackdump
> /usr/src/autoconf-2.59/configure: line 41:  4068 Segmentation fault     
> (core dumped) ( set +x;
> 
> test -z "`(eval $as_var=C; export $as_var) 2>&1`" )
>       0 [main] sh 2424 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to
> sh.exe.stackdump
> /usr/src/autoconf-2.59/configure: line 41:  2424 Segmentation fault     
> (core dumped) ( set +x;
> 
> test -z "`(eval $as_var=C; export $as_var) 2>&1`" )
>       0 [main] sh 2776 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to
> sh.exe.stackdump
> /usr/src/autoconf-2.59/configure: line 41:  2776 Segmentation fault     
> (core dumped) ( set +x;
> 
> test -z "`(eval $as_var=C; export $as_var) 2>&1`" )
>       0 [main] sh 2236 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to
> sh.exe.stackdump
> ....
> ....
> ....
>       0 [main] sh 4748 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to
> sh.exe.stackdump
> : error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh in config /config
> make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
> make: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.
>       0 [main] sh 4924 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to
> sh.exe.stackdump
> /home/saba/autoconf-2.59-mingwPORT/autoconf-2.59/mingwPORT/mingwPORT.cleanup:
> line 54:  4924
> 
> Segmentation fault      (core dumped) ( isyes $DOWNLOAD )
> 
> saba at DUALITY ~/autoconf-2.59-mingwPORT/autoconf-2.59/mingwPORT
> $
> "
> 
> BTW, the dots ("....") are ommitted stuff to shorten the message.
> 
> I don't know what to do. If I want to go on to the next step "Updating
> autoconf from contrib", the Win32CompileMSYS documents says to run the
> command "cd vlc-trunk/extras/contrib", but I don't see any vlc-trunk
> directory. Anyway, I copied directory 'vlc-0.8.6d' inside directory
> "C:\msys\1.0\home\saba". Then I ran "./bootstrap" from
> "vlc-0.8.6d/extras/contrib" directory in msys shell. The following is the
> full result I got:
> 
> "
> saba at DUALITY ~/vlc-0.8.6d/extras/contrib
> $ ./bootstrap
> ++ gcc -dumpmachine
> + BUILD=mingw32
> + test 0 = 1
> + HOST=mingw32
> + rm -f config.mak
> + echo -e '# Automatically generated by bootstrap.\n# Make changes if you
> know what you'\''re doing.\n'
> + test mingw32 '!=' mingw32
> + case $HOST in
> + echo 'HAVE_WIN32 = 1'
> + echo 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH = $(PREFIX)/lib/pkgconfig'
> + echo 'BUILD = mingw32'
> + echo 'HOST = mingw32'
> ++ pwd
> + echo 'PREFIX = /home/saba/vlc-0.8.6d/extras/contrib'
> + echo 'CC = '
> + echo 'CXX = '
> + echo 'LD = '
> + echo 'RANLIB = '
> + echo 'AR = '
> + echo 'EXTRA_CFLAGS =  '
> + echo 'EXTRA_CPPFLAGS =  -I/include'
> + echo 'EXTRA_LDFLAGS = '
> + echo 'EXTRA_PATH = '
> + which curl
> + wget --version
> + echo 'WGET = wget'
> + test -f /sw/bin/svn
> + test -f /usr/local/bin/svn
> + test -f /opt/local/bin/svn
> + svn help
> + echo 'You do not have a subversion client installed.'
> You do not have a subversion client installed.
> 
> saba at DUALITY ~/vlc-0.8.6d/extras/contrib
> "
> 
> And then "make .autoconf" fails.
> 
> Could someone help me please. I want to build vlc in windows so that I can
> cut out the functionalities that I don't need, and then add some
> functionalities of my own.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> Saba
> 
> 
> > Hi again,
> >
> > Here is the complete error message I'm getting:
> >
> > "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
> > 8\VC\PlatformSDK\include\msacm.h(23) : fatal error C1189: #error :
> > MMREG.H version 142 or greater to be included first"
> >
> > so you know now that it is not from vlc source directly, and none of the
> > files of vlc source is including msacm.h directly, and hence it is hard
> > for me to trace back.
> >
> > Help please.
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> > Saba
> >
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> I'm trying to compile libvlc and vlc in Windows XP using Visual Studio
> >> 8,
> >> and using the vlc and libvlc project files that came in msvc directory
> >> of
> >> vlc-0.8.6 package. I compiled libvlc fine, and linked libvlc.lib in vlc
> >> project. Now I get the following message while trying to build/compile
> >> vlc:
> >>
> >> "fatal error C1189: #error :  MMREG.H version 142 or greater to be
> >> included first"
> >>
> >> Could someone help me please?
> >>
> >> Regards.
> >>
> >> Saba
> >>
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