[vlc-devel] commit: Make clear of what compilation is supported and which one is not for Windows . (Jean-Baptiste Kempf )

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Thu Mar 6 07:56:48 CET 2008


vlc | branch: master | Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org> | Wed Mar  5 22:55:09 2008 -0800| [8d0a3a2da87cebfda1212dea51aa596f317b1145]

Make clear of what compilation is supported and which one is not for Windows.

> http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/vlc.git/?a=commit;h=8d0a3a2da87cebfda1212dea51aa596f317b1145
---

 INSTALL.win32 |   10 +++++++---
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/INSTALL.win32 b/INSTALL.win32
index bf94971..432dc86 100644
--- a/INSTALL.win32
+++ b/INSTALL.win32
@@ -31,6 +31,13 @@ If you want to build VLC from sources, you can do it in several ways:
   NOTE: This is the PREFERRED way of building VLC natively (the others
   are not as much tested so expect more difficulties with them).
 
+  Read http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32CompileCygwinNew to have a complete HOWTO
+
+- On GNU/Linux, using the mingw32 cross-compiler.
+  This method is  preferred over all the others.
+
+UNSUPPORTED METHODS
+-------------------
 - natively on Windows, using MSYS+MINGW (www.mingw.org)
   (MSYS is a minimal build environment to compile Unixish projects under
   windoze. It provides all the common Unix tools like sh, gmake...)
@@ -46,9 +53,6 @@ If you want to build VLC from sources, you can do it in several ways:
     with the --fast-mutex --win9x-cv-method=1 options because the debugger
     usually loses signals sent by PulseEvent() )
 
-- or on GNU/Linux, using the mingw32 cross-compiler.
-  This method is  preferred over all the others.
-
 Getting the right compiler tools
 ================================
 




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