[vlc-devel] Compiling for Windows on Ubuntu

[Roiy Shpaner]

Sure, no worries.
And about the errors, you will need to update your Ubuntu to the "Trusty" release version.
Also, you can use the forums and IRC in case of issues.

Good luck,
Roiy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vlc-devel [mailto:vlc-devel-bounces at videolan.org] On Behalf Of Ray
> Tiley
> Sent: May-03-14 8:33 PM
> To: Mailing list for VLC media player developers
> Subject: Re: [vlc-devel] Compiling for Windows on Ubuntu
> 
> On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Roiy Shpaner <roiy at cs.umanitoba.ca>
> wrote:
> > Hi Ray,
> >
> > There is no need for a patch.
> > As Rémi said, you don't have a properly configured pkg-config. VLC used to
> set a variable called PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR for you on configure, but it no
> longer does so.
> > This causes the pkg-config to miss your libraries. The way to solve this is to
> set the PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR with the correct contrib directory (should be
> vlcdir/contrib/i686-w64-mingw32(or whatever you used)/lib/pkgconfig).
> > Do that and run configure again (no need to disable anything).
> >
> > Roiy
> 
> Thanks for making that clear. I was wondering why it suddenly broke even
> though it used to compile on this VM. Are there any other enviornment
> variables I need to set? Configure is working properly now but I get these
> errors when doing the actual build.
> 
> make[4]: Entering directory `/home/raytiley/vlc_sources/vlc/win32/modules'
>   CC       audio_output/mmdevice.lo
> ../../extras/package/win32/../../../modules/audio_output/mmdevice.c:47:1:
> warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration [enabled
> by default]
> ../../extras/package/win32/../../../modules/audio_output/mmdevice.c:49:4
> 8:
> error: expected ‘)’ before ‘PCRITICAL_SECTION’
> ../../extras/package/win32/../../../modules/audio_output/mmdevice.c:50:1:
> warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration [enabled
> by default]
> ../../extras/package/win32/../../../modules/audio_output/mmdevice.c:
> In function ‘DllMain’:
> ../../extras/package/win32/../../../modules/audio_output/mmdevice.c:68:1
> 3:
> error: ‘SleepConditionVariableCS’ undeclared (first use in this
> function)
> ../../extras/package/win32/../../../modules/audio_output/mmdevice.c:68:1
> 3:
> note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it
> appears in
> ../../extras/package/win32/../../../modules/audio_output/mmdevice.c:
> At top level:
> ../../extras/package/win32/../../../modules/audio_output/mmdevice.c:126:
> 5:
> error: unknown type name ‘CONDITION_VARIABLE’
> ../../extras/package/win32/../../../modules/audio_output/mmdevice.c:127:
> 5:
> error: unknown type name ‘CONDITION_VARIABLE’
> ../../extras/package/win32/../../../modules/audio_output/mmdevice.c:
> In function ‘DeviceSelect’:
> ../../extras/package/win32/../../../modules/audio_output/mmdevice.c:800:
> 9:
> error: implicit declaration of function ‘SleepConditionVariableCS’
> [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
> ../../extras/package/win32/../../../modules/audio_output/mmdevice.c:
> In function ‘MMSession’:
> ../../extras/package/win32/../../../modules/audio_output/mmdevice.c:931:
> 13:
> error: implicit declaration of function
> ‘IAudioSessionControl2_SetDuckingPreference’
> [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
> cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
> make[4]: *** [audio_output/mmdevice.lo] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/raytiley/vlc_sources/vlc/win32/modules'
> make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/raytiley/vlc_sources/vlc/win32/modules'
> make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/raytiley/vlc_sources/vlc/win32/modules'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/raytiley/vlc_sources/vlc/win32'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -ray
> 
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: vlc-devel [mailto:vlc-devel-bounces at videolan.org] On Behalf Of
> >> Ray Tiley
> >> Sent: May-03-14 11:21 AM
> >> To: Mailing list for VLC media player developers
> >> Subject: Re: [vlc-devel] Compiling for Windows on Ubuntu
> >>
> >> On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Rémi Denis-Courmont
> <remi at remlab.net>
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Le samedi 3 mai 2014, 16:47:51 Francois Cartegnie a écrit :
> >> > > Le 03/05/2014 16:23, Rémi Denis-Courmont a écrit :
> >> > > > Le samedi 3 mai 2014, 09:01:27 Ray Tiley a écrit :
> >> > > >> checking for VDPAU... yes
> >> > > >> configure: error: VDPAU requires Xlib (X11).
> >> > > >
> >> > > > VDPAU does not exist on Windows. So this can only mean one thing:
> >> > > > pkg-config is not configured consistently in your build
> >> > > > environment. I'd guess it's using the native packages.
> >> > >
> >> > > My own build environment setup scripts are also now experiencing
> >> > > that problem (building/enabling modules against host config
> >> > > instead of
> >> target).
> >> > > Except debian updates, nothing can have changed as the start
> >> > > system is the same frozen vm.
> >> >
> >> > You need to either install a cross-pkg-config, or set the
> >> > environment variables correctly; see ./configure --help. On Debian,
> >> > installing mingw-w64-tools should fix this in the simplest fashion.
> >> >
> >> > By (mis)design, the AC_CHECK_TOOL macro will pick native tools when
> >> > it cannot find cross-compilation ones... It should arguably fail
> >> > instead, but VLC cannot change autoconf.
> >> >
> >>
> >> So I got a bit further by adding --disable-vdpau to
> >> `extras/package/win32/configure.sh` OPTIONS. That let me succesfully
> >> configure. Now when I run make it exits because it can't find ldbus-1 or -
> lrt.
> >>
> >> i686-w64-mingw32-windres --include-dir
> >> ../../extras/package/win32/../../../share --include-dir
> >> ../../extras/package/win32/../../../extras/package/win32 -i
> >> libvlc_win32_rc.rc -o libvlc_win32_rc.o
> >>   CCLD     libvlccore.la
> >> /usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-ld: cannot find -ldbus-1
> >> /usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-ld: cannot find -lrt
> >> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> >> make[3]: *** [libvlccore.la] Error 1
> >> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/raytiley/vlc_sources/vlc/win32/src'
> >> make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> >> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/raytiley/vlc_sources/vlc/win32/src'
> >> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> >> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/raytiley/vlc_sources/vlc/win32'
> >> make: *** [all] Error 2
> >> raytiley at ubuntu:~/vlc_sources/vlc/win32$
> >>
> >>
> >> A) Should --disable-vdpau be included in the default win32 options?
> >> Should I submit a patch?
> >>
> >> B) What are these missing files, and now can I ether add them to my
> >> system, or disable whatever compoenent needs them.
> >>
> >> Thanks for the help. I really appreciate it.
> >>
> >> -ray
> >>
> >> > --
> >> > Rémi Denis-Courmont
> >> > http://www.remlab.net/
> >> >
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