[vlc-devel] Help build VLC cross platform

[Felix Paul Kühne]

Hello Yair,

It is impossible to cross-compile VLC for Mac on a non-Mac operating  
system. The API used by this port is limited to the specific platform  
and there is no supported SDK for Linux or even Win32.

Therefore, you will need a Mac to do the Mac binaries. While you're at  
it, you can cross-compile your Win32 builds on a Mac as mingw32 is  
available using MacPorts. Limited information is available on <http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32Compile 
 >, but in fact it's pretty straight forward:

1) install MacPorts (or DarwinPorts if you prefer)
2) install the mingw32 environment using MacPorts
3) get VLC's source
4) compile the contribs with the correct bootstrap argument ("i586- 
mingw32msvc" as far as I remember)
5) compile VLC with --host=i586-mingw32msvc
6) package your build

Of course, you can do the same Win32 builds on Linux as well. A bit  
more on the configure flags is available on the mentioned wiki page.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,

Felix