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Thanks unidan, your instructions helped and I was able to compile vlc, which also opened on Windows. Here's how I exactly did that: For all commands outside the docker container I used sudo rights 1. Installed docker & docker.io from package manager 2. Pulled docker image with command: docker pu...

Hello unidan and thanks for your reply! I've never used docker to build anything, so that is why I have tried to fight my way to compile VLC with this toolchain. I already tried once building it with docker-image but that didn't lead me pretty far, mostly because I didn't have much clue what to do.....

Hello, I've tried to build VLC pretty long time already. I've faced many problems, but finally I've been able to compile it and made an installation package. I've used these instructions as a guideline https://wiki.videolan.org/Win32Compile/. My environment is Ubuntu 18.04, where I've built MinGW fr...

I was able to compile vlc using Win32Compile instructions, when I rebuild my toolchain, which has GCC-8 compiler. For those, who has similar kind of issues than discussed in here, then here's pretty easily understandable instructions, how to build a cross-compiler https://github.com/Alexpux/mingw-w6...

Could you specify, in which file I've to add this '#define _GLIBCXX_USE_WEAK_REF 0', if I want to rebuild my toolchain? I tried adding it to os_defines.h, which locates in usr/lib/x86_64-w64-mingw32/7.3-win32/include/c++/x86_64-w64mingw32/bits folder inside the "#ifdef __x86_64__" below li...

I'm also facing exactly the same error. Have you been able to solve this yet MarsZhang? Anyone have idea, how to solve this? I've tried to compile 3rd party libraries manually and by using prebuilt option, they both led me to this same error :(. I've also tried to compile VLC from a tarball source a...