Hello,
You have to download the required C compiler, If you don't know what it is you can always download the complete Cygwin; that is what I did and worked fine.
These instructions are for snapshot 20040222. I did all of this in windows XP.
If you want to compile the code on your own the following must be done.
The libraries can be download from here:
Need to use new library, this one works for me....
http://download.videolan.org/pub/testin ... ly.tar.bz2
Decompress this file into your cygwin directory... so that its cygwin/usr/win32..and libs are in here.
this file should be decompressed inside the snapshot directory, (winrar works nicely for these file types) it will create an new directory called "usr"
I am unsure if the files also need to be put in the snapshot dir, but i know it doesn't have a negative effect... so for now, still include this step.
YOu also need to add this file to the /share directory, (replace the current file)
vlc_win32_rc.rc
So now using cygwin you must change the current directory to match where you put the source code...
linux command refresher...
ls - list files
pwd - shows current directory you are in
cd ## - change directory
that should be enough...
so once you are in the main directory of the source code you need to configure the build.
This can be done by typing the following: (note: the first line should be similar to the prompt you see)
Matt Woods@MATTSCOMPUTER /cygdrive/c/v/f22/vlc-snapshot-20040222
$ ./bootstrap && \
CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/win32/include -I/usr/win32/include/ebml" \
LDFLAGS=-L/usr/win32/lib \
CC="gcc -mno-cygwin" CXX="g++ -mno-cygwin" \
./configure \
--disable-sdl --disable-gtk \
--enable-nls \
--enable-ffmpeg --with-ffmpeg-mp3lame \
--enable-faad \
--enable-flac \
--enable-theora \
--with-wx-config-path=/usr/win32/bin \
--with-freetype-config-path=/usr/win32/bin \
--with-fribidi-config-path=/usr/win32/bin \
--disable-mkv \
--disable-skins \
--disable-skins2 \
--enable-debug
This seems to take around 20 minutes to complete
Once the configure process has completed type "make" and enter, this will begin the make process.
Expect to wait approxiamtely 40 minutes for this process to complete.
once the make has completed there should now be an vlc.exe file in the main directory of the source code, and thats it...
Please note that some changes were made to the provided instrucitons in install.win32 such as 3 or 4 lines added to the configure script and vlc_win32_rc.rc was modified (several lines removed) as well. I thought it was important to state this incase we encounter problems later related to these changes.
