http://people.videolan.org/~jb/Contribs/contrib-20110224-win32-bin-gcc-4.4.4-runtime-3.17-only.tar.bz2 Those ARE mandatory to build any version of VLC for Windows > 1.1.7 Best Regards, -- Jean-Baptiste Kempf http://www.jbkempf.com/ +33 672 704 734