[vlc] Re: Compiling VLC - problem with libiconv

[Charles Iliya Krempeaux]

Hello,

Tried it an got a different error...

+ AUTOMAKESUCKS=no
+ INSTALLSUCKS=no
+ ACLOCAL_ARGS=-I m4
+ test -d extras/contrib/bin
+ rm -f m4/autoconf260.m4
++ autoconf --version
++ head -1
+ echo 'Hey, your autoconf is quite old. Update it.'
Hey, your autoconf is quite old. Update it.
+ exit 1


MinGW has autoconf version 2.56.

What does VLC need?  2.6?

(And if so, is there an easy of updating this?  Or should I prepare for
dependency hell :-)  )


See ya


On 10/19/06, amin xu <jxtadev at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> pls try MINGW/MSYS. :-)
>
>
>
> On 10/19/06, Charles Iliya Krempeaux <supercanadian at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Thought I'd try my hand at VLC hacking, so I thought I'd start off by
> > just trying to compile it.
> >
> > Started off trying to compile it on my Linux laptop.  But it has an old
> > version of Fedora... and VLC needs newer tools versions than what that
> > computer has... so I decided to try it on my laptop with MS Windows on it.
> > (Need something to test site in IE on.  But anways....)
> >
> > I downloaded Cygwin, and installed a whole bunch of stuff (that
> > ./configure complained about) but I eventually came to a problem.
> >
> > Here's the last 5 lines from ./configure...
> >
> > checking whether NLS is requested... yes
> > checking whether included gettext is requested... no
> > checking for GNU gettext in libc... no
> > checking for GNU gettext in libintl... no
> > configure: error: libiconv is needed for VLC to work properly
> >
> > The thing is, libiconv seems to be there.  (It's in the /lib folder.)
> >
> > Is this a problem someone else has seen before?  Anyone have any
> > suggestions?
> >
> >
> > See ya
> >
> > --
> >     Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.
> >
> >     charles @ reptile.ca
> >     supercanadian @ gmail.com
> >
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-- 
    Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.

    charles @ reptile.ca
    supercanadian @ gmail.com

    developer weblog: http://ChangeLog.ca/
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