I just checked out the latest code of VLC from videolan cvs and compiled it with cygwin, but bootstrap can't work: ./bootstrap && \ CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/win32/include -I/usr/win32/include/ebml" \ LDFLAGS=-L/usr/win32/lib \ CC="gcc -mno-cygwin" CXX="g++ -mno-cygwin" ...