[vlc] Re: compile problem with cygwin

[Gildas Bazin]

On Monday 25 October 2004 18:34, Denis Jouvin wrote:
> Hi users and developers of VLC,
> 
> I am having a hard time trying to compile VLC under cygwin. I followed 
> scrupulously (at least I think so) the instructions in INSTALL.win32.
> 
> I always get this error:
> ----------
> In file included from ../../include/vlc/vlc.h:128,
>                  from file.c:27:
> ../../include/vlc_common.h:133: error: redefinition of `ssize_t'
> /usr/local/include/sys/types.h:170: error: `ssize_t' previously declared 
> here
>

The cygwin distribution recently updated there w32api headers in a way which 
broke VLC. This has been fixed in the development version.

Try http://www.videolan.org/pub/testing/vlc-0.8.0-test2 or get the 
development version.

--
Gildas

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