[vlc-devel] Error compiling VLC for Windows

[Naohiro KORIYAMA]

2012/6/26 Sankha Narayan Guria <sankha93 at gmail.com>:
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Naohiro KORIYAMA <nkoriyama at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> 2012/6/26 Sankha Narayan Guria <sankha93 at gmail.com>:
>> > Hi,
>> >    I am new to the developers area of VLC. I cloned the source
>> > repository
>> > and tried to compile it for Windows via cross-compiling with Mingw on
>> > Linux.
>> > I am getting the following error when I execute the "./bootstrap" in the
>> > main vlc directory:
>> >
>> > autoreconf2.50: running: aclocal -I m4 --force -I m4
>> > configure.ac:399: error: m4_undefine: undefined macro:
>> > AC_DEPLIBS_CHECK_METHOD
>> > configure.ac:399: the top level
>> > autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
>> > aclocal: /usr/bin/autom4te failed with exit status: 1
>> > autoreconf2.50: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
>> >
>> > What is wrong in my system? What should I do to correctly build VLC?
>>
>> Autotools version is old. I think.
>>
>
> I have all the packages updated to the latest version from the Ubuntu
> repository. So is there something else wrong?


Did you see the description in the Wiki?

Development tools
You will also need:
lua5.1
all autotools: libtool, automake, autoconf, autopoint, make, gettext
pkg-config
git
subversion
cmake, cvs if you want to rebuild contribs
zip [for creating .zip package], p7zip [for .7z package], nsis [for
.exe auto-installer].

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>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Sankha
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