[vlc-devel] Project of generation libvlc.lib compatible with MS Visual Studio.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le jeudi 10 novembre 2011 19:05:29 Jacques Boileau, vous avez écrit :
> How to implement this in the make whoever is beyond my knowledge of
> make files. But we would need to have access to lib.exe from
> VisualStudio, so the build configuration would have to know where it
> is. I know most of you are Linux oriented developers so I don't know
> if you have VisualStudio available when you do your Win32
> build.

VisualStudio is not a component of the Windows operating system, or is it?

| "(...) as a special exception, the source code distributed need not
| include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or
| binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on)
| of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that
| component itself accompanies the executable."

I'd strongly advise not to VisualStudio (or any other proprietary tools chain) 
with (L)GPL derived work unless your competent lawyer told you it's OK.

The .lib file really should be generated by binutils if it is useful.

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