win binary problems

[Gildas Bazin]

On Wednesday 10 April 2002 23:18, Tim Newsham wrote:
> I installed the windows binary package on my win2k machine.
> The installer file vlc-0.3.0-win32.exe.
> 
> It installed fine, and I can run vlc -h to get help, but when
> I run vlc directly, or double click on its icon, I get no gui
> of any sort.
> 
> Is the binary snapshot broken?  

Yes it is broken :(
Go back to www.videolan.org, the download page has been updated with the 
necessary information to make this work. (basically you need to download 
the old GTK interface plugin).

> Am I missing tools that it requires (the page said there were no
> external dependancies, but the screen shots looked a lot like
> there was an X display being used.  Do I need X?)
> Is there some sort of conflict?  (I have cygwin installed, the
> product uses mingwin, are there conflicts that arise between
> these two packages?  I know they used to be related).
> 

No, you're not missing anything and they are no conflict between VLC and 
cygwin/mingw (mingw is just used to compile VLC, but that's it). About the 
screenshot, it was made with the GTK interface for Win32 which has exactly 
the same look and feel as the GTK interface under linux.

Cheers,

--
Gildas

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