[vlc-devel] Problems cross compiling to windows according to Win32Compile

[Edward Wang]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:32 PM, David R. Robison
<david.robison at openroadsconsulting.com> wrote:
> OK, I'm starting over with a fresh Ubuntu install and following the
> documentation for compiling VLC on Windows to the tee.
>
> When I get to the configure stage, I get the error:
>
> configure: error: LibVLC requires mingw-runtime version 3.15 or higher,
> or mingw-w64 version 3.0 or higher!
>
> I assume I need to apt-get install mingw-w63 since I am building for
> Windows 64. Correct?


mingw-w64 should be able to target both 32-bit and 64-bit out of the box.

Regards,
    Edward Wang