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I am using newly installed Ubuntu-12.04.1 installed in the VMPlayer.

I followed the steps described in this page:
http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32Compile

I installed the gcc-mingw32 with but without since the later one complains that the gcc w64 tools need to be installed.

I downloaded the VLC 2.0.1 source from the archive.

The first steps were smooth, until I ran the command to configure First, it complains that libmad is not found. I installed the libmad0 and libmad0-dev, no change. I downloaded the libmad-0.15.1.b, compiled and installed as default (to /usr/local/lib), also , nothing changed. The libmad libs are right inside the /usr/local/lib and I even copied them to the /usr/lib but still not recognized.

Then I used --disable-mad to move-on, until the error "cannot find development headers for libfaad". I installed the libfaad-dev from software center, still complain on the same error.

Has anyone successfully made win32 cross compile with VLC 2.0.x ? Many thanks !

You skipped buils steps, build failed. No surprises.

You skipped buils steps, build failed. No surprises.

Thank you. I want to add that I did the contrib prebuilt steps exactly as the wiki documents, no error in those steps.

You mean I skipped the "mingw32-binutils" ?

Actually if I did together, I got the error message that gcc, g++ and fortran w64 were not installed. Even if I installed these tools, it reported the same error.

If I did and seperatedly, then the binutils install said to remove the firstly installed gcc-mingw32 ...

So how to install them both ? Thanks again.

because you did not do the contribs part correctly.

because you did not do the contribs part correctly.

Thank you. But the compiler installation comes before the installation of contribs.

Contribs refers to this, please read it: http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32Compile#P ... _libraries