[vlc] Re: Cross-compile for Windows

Gildas Bazin gbazin at altern.org
Thu Oct 28 18:49:05 CEST 2004


On Thursday 28 October 2004 17:46, Benjamin Molina wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> I would like to cross-compile vlc for Windows. Following the 
> instructions on the availables sources (both 0.7.1 and 0.7.2) in 
> /doc/win32/crosss-compile-howto.txt  i'm finding myself unable to carry 
> out the explanations. Some libraries are not available, such as 
> linux-cross-mingw32....tar.bz2
> This can be solved because Debian (sid, the only one that has automake 
>  >=1.5) includes mingw32; however, there is no /usr/local/cross-tools 
> directory to do the compilation.
> The SDL libraries are out-of-date and the same occurs with directx.
> Is there any available document in videolan that describes 
> straight-forward all the steps to cross-compile with  a reference to all 
> dependant libraries?
> I haven't test it in vlc 0.8, as it is already in a testing status, but 
> maybe it is the only available solution, is it?
> 

Have a look at the INSTALL.win32 file. The build procedure is described 
there.

--
Gildas

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