[vlc-devel] SDK for Win32

[Kaarlo Räihä]

2011/4/3 Andrew Price <messiahandrw at gmail.com>

> Hi all,
>
> This is great, thanks!
> I had to call:
> dos2unix configure.ac
>  <http://configure.ac/>dos2unix */configure.ac
>
> For it to build correctly. Also, 'make' runs fine, but it outputs a vlc.exe
> and complains about missing .dlls, so instead I've been calling 'make
> package-win32-exe' which creates a nice vlc-1.2.0-git directory with the
> executable, dependencies, and plugins in there ready to run. But 'make
> package-win32-exe' also fails writing this to std err:
>
> fatal: Not a valid object name .gitignore
> cp: cannot stat `/b/Programming/vlc/_win32/share/locale': No such file or
> direct
> ory
> make: [package-win-common] Error 1 (ignored)
> cp: cannot stat `./npapi-vlc/installed/lib/npvlc.dll': No such file or
> directory
>
> make: *** [package-win-common] Error 1
>

That issue has been there for a long time. It (npvlc.dll) is a browser
plugin, so it isn't required for vlc.exe


>
> Here is my complete std out log: http://tinypaste.com/382a13
>
> However despite failing, there's still a runnable copy of vlc.exe in the
> vlc-1.2.0-git directory, and I don't know why it failed or if it's required.
>

Can you copy the folder to another computer and run vlc.exe there?


>
> Anyway, thanks for the SDK because it's been a big help in getting my
> environment up and running.
>
> Andrew
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 12:34 PM, sheladiya chetan <ptlchetan at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> HI jean
>>
>> Thanks , I am right now compiling it for windows for just changing default
>> skin. if it really work I will sure send you bucks :D.
>> I am trying things from last 3 days still not getting success generating
>> setup package and where to do modification to load my skkin as default.
>>
>> Let me try with you way... one more hope..
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Chetan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 4:00 AM, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org>wrote:
>>
>>> For those who want to compile VLC on Windows that are not able to create
>>> a correct setup, here is an helper.
>>>
>>> 1) Get http://people.videolan.org/~jb/VLC_SDK.7z
>>> 2) un-7zip it to C:\VLC_SDK
>>> 3) run MSys, from the shortcut in C:\VLC_SDK\1.0\
>>>
>>> You have Mingw, Msys, Autotools, pkg-config, VLC contribs, git, lua and
>>> moc/rcc there.
>>>
>>> 4) git clone git://git.videolan.org/vlc.git
>>> 4b) you might need dos2unix configure.ac
>>> 5) ./bootstrap
>>> 6) sh extras/package/win32/configure-msys.sh
>>> 7) PATH=/usr/win32/bin:$PATH make -j3
>>>
>>> This is a test and comes with absolute no warranty.
>>>
>>> If you like it, don't hesitate to send me money through paypal. :D
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jean-Baptiste Kempf
>>> http://www.jbkempf.com/
>>> +33 672 704 734
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