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

[David R. Robison]

First I want to thank everyone who helped me with suggestions, ideas, 
hints, prayers, and even unfounded hope. I finally got a development 
environment setup where I can compile VLC for Windows 64Bit. Here is my 
script. By the way, the secret ingredient is in step #4.
David

1) Create a 64-but Ubuntu 14.04 LTS VM and load all the system updates

2) Install the needed tools for the build. There may be some extra stuff 
here but it won't hurt ya.

sudo apt-get install \
     texinfo pax g++ cvs yasm subversion git flex m4 bison \
     lua5.2 \
     libtool automake autoconf autopoint make gettext \
     pkg-config \
     qt4-dev-tools \
     git \
     subversion \
     wine-dev \
     zip p7zip nsis bzip2 \
     ragel ant default-jdk cmake

Note: during the wine install a popup will be displayed. You will need 
to tab to the answer and use the space bar to select it as part of 
accepting the license agreement.

3) We use the ffmpeg mingw-w64 package. Create a directory for the 
mingw-w64 Tool, copy the install script into that directory, and build 
mingw-w64:

mkdir mingw-w64
cd mingw-w64
wget http://zeranoe.com/scripts/mingw_w64_build/mingw-w64-build-3.6.0
./mingw-w64-build-3.6.0 --build-type=win64 --default-configure 
--enable-gendef --enable-nls

Note: After the wget command make sure to modify the file's permisisons 
to allow it to be executed.

4) In your user's directory, create the file .bash_aliases and add the 
following lines

export PATH="/home/david/mingw-w64/mingw-w64-x86_64/bin:$PATH"
export PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=/home/david/vlc/contrib

where /home/david/vlc is where you will checkout VLC to. This last line 
is what I was missing and what I believe was causing all my trouble.

5) Log out and log back in to let the exports take affect.

6) Clone the VLC code

git clone git://git.videolan.org/vlc.git vlc

7) From the VLC root directory, build the contribs. You may get away 
with the prebuilts but this works for me.

mkdir -p contrib/win32
cd contrib/win32
../bootstrap --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32
make fetch
make

8) From the VLC root directory, bootstrap and configure the build

./bootstrap
mkdir win32
cd win32
../extras/package/win32/configure.sh --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32

9) from the VLC/win32 directory, build VLC

make



David R Robison
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