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I think it only happens when you build from a tarball rather than from git hub

if anyone is interested the answer to solve this problem is described here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=814954 you need to modify the configure.ac file inside gcrypt directory - m4_esyscmd([git rev-parse --short HEAD | tr -d '\n\r'])) + m4_esyscmd([printf %x $(wc -l < debian/ch...

thank you for your answer, I am now able to build vlc 4 from git, but when I try to build vlc3.0.3 (inside a vlc-debian-win64 container) I get the gcrypt error: x86_64-w64-mingw32-windres: versioninfo.rc.in:21: syntax error Makefile:1224: recipe for target 'versioninfo.lo' failed make[2]: *** [versi...

Hi newlukas, can you please specify your steps? Did you follow the cheat sheet above? each time I try to run the docker pull registry.videolan.org:5000/vlc-debian-win64 command, I get an error: docker: Error response from daemon: Get https://registry.videolan.org:5000/v2/: net/http: request canceled...