[vlc-devel] Compiled VLC with Cygwin! Thanks Jean-Baptiste Kempf!

[Geoffroy Couprie]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 4:11 PM, jboileau <jboileau at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is the information on how to build VLC for debugging on windows
>> available on the wiki ?
>
> Yes it is! And I just copied the debug versions of  vlc.exe,
> libvlc.dll and libvlc-control.dll from the .libs directory to the
> vlc-0.9.0-git I created using make package-win32-base and it works
> fine.

you can use make package-win32-base-debug, it creates directly a
debuggable version of vlc in vlc-0.9.0-git.

>
> The wiki does say : "Once the compilation is done, you can either run
> VLC directly from the source tree or you can build self-contained VLC
> packages" but I certainly could not run vlc from the resulted .libs
> directory that lacked all the needed subdirectories (plugins, etc..).
>
> I haven't tried it yet, but does anyone know if it is possible to
> debug an application created with Visual Studio that uses libvlc using
> gdb?
>
> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Rafaël Carré <funman at videolan.org> wrote:
>> Le Thu, 15 May 2008 08:36:52 -0400,
>> jboileau <jboileau at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>
>>> I'll start with ticket #35 !!!!! :-) Nobody touches that one! Its
>>> mine! All mine!!!!! Wouhahaha! ;-)
>>>
>>> And yes, thanks to every one else who contributed to the 'How To'!
>>
>> Is the information on how to build VLC for debugging on windows
>> available on the wiki ?
>>
>>> Being able to compile is one step, now i'll try my hand doing some
>>> mods and see if it all still works! I have never used gdb, so there is
>>> surely some learning to to there.
>>
>> * bt : will show the backtrace of the current (or crashed) thread
>> * thread apply all bt : will show the backtrace of every alive thread
>> * print variable : will show the value of given variable
>>
>> The essential basics :)
>>
>> --
>> Rafaël Carré
>>
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