[vlc-devel] [vlc-commits] INSTALL.win32: clarify

[Geoffroy Couprie]

Hello,

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Rafaël Carré <git at videolan.org> wrote:
> vlc | branch: master | Rafaël Carré <rafael.carre at gmail.com> | Tue Jun 14 22:04:21 2011 -0400| [1852b7e190dc6144324b4dd6b15649d807a78a26] | committer: Rafaël Carré
>
> INSTALL.win32: clarify
>
> Explain why we prefer to build under GNU/Linux
> Remove completely mention of Visual Studio, it 'will not work' anyway
> Use of Cygwin is discouraged
>
>> http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/vlc.git/?a=commit;h=1852b7e190dc6144324b4dd6b15649d807a78a26
> ---
>
>  INSTALL.win32 |   13 ++++++-------
>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/INSTALL.win32 b/INSTALL.win32
> index ff8050f..d8f83f1 100644
> --- a/INSTALL.win32
> +++ b/INSTALL.win32
> @@ -24,21 +24,20 @@ Building VLC from the source code
>  If you want to build VLC from sources, you can do it in several ways:
>
>  - On GNU/Linux, using the mingw32 cross-compiler.
> -  This method is preferred over all the others.
> +  This is the preferred method, as this is the one used by VideoLAN to
> +  build the official Windows binaries.
>
>  - natively on Windows, using MSYS+MINGW (www.mingw.org)
>   (MSYS is a minimal build environment to compile Unixish projects under
>   windows. It provides all the common Unix tools like sh, gmake...)

AFAIK, MSYS still works. But support is another matter.