[vlc-devel] Using VLC 4.0.0 on WSL2 Ubuntu 25.04 with wayland

[Alexandre Janniaux]

> but there are nightly builds here (https://artifacts.videolan.org/vlc/nightly-win64-ucrt-llvm) that you can get the optimum results on Windows

Note that those are not signed.

> for Windows specific things I think nowadays it is not so hard to use MinGW-w64 to cross build for Windows.

Also, the build with MinGW triggers a lot of bugs in the Qt interface
and makes it unusable.
Building with the llvm-mingw docker yields much better and safer results.

Regards,
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Alexandre Janniaux
Videolabs

Le jeu. 26 juin 2025 à 17:52, Fatih Uzunoğlu <fuzun54 at outlook.com> a écrit :
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> > Note that another workaround would be using the environment variable `QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb` to use xwayland
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> And of course, maybe it is obvious in this case as WSL2 is meant to run on Windows but, the ultimate workaround would be using the native Windows build.
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> If you are a user, maybe you are not aware (as I have seen on the internet some people are not), but there are nightly builds here (https://artifacts.videolan.org/vlc/nightly-win64-ucrt-llvm) that you can get the optimum results on Windows. If you are a developer, for Linux specific things I think it makes more sense to not use a virtual machine (especially for developing a video player), and for Windows specific things I think nowadays it is not so hard to use MinGW-w64 to cross build for Windows.
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