[vlc-devel] [vlc-commits] Win32: Do not ship libgcc*dll

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

On 16 Apr, Edward Wang wrote :
> On 13-04-16 08:53 AM, Rafaël Carré <funman at videolan.org> wrote:
> >Le 16/04/2013 13:05, Jean-Baptiste Kempf a écrit :
> >>>vlc | branch: master | Jean-Baptiste Kempf<jb at videolan.org>  | Tue Apr 16 13:04:38 2013 +0200| [dc28edcecdf204867a504e946386511689e37f90] | committer: Jean-Baptiste Kempf
> >>>
> >>>Win32: Do not ship libgcc*dll
> >>>
> >>>This is too hard to manage correctly
> >How so?
> >
> I would agree with Rafaël here.

Compile a libVLC app with gcc with a different version of the one being
used for VLC.

Ask the KDE for Windows guys for the nightmare stories.

Moreover, let me ask the opposite: what is the benefit of shipping those
libraries? We never did and it always worked fine. But now we need them
because it's cool?

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