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I am cross-compiling with the precompiled libraries. The name of the tar ball is contrib-20061112-win32-bin-gcc-3.4.5-only.tar, but does that refer to gcc 3.4.5 or mingw 3.4.5?

Herehttp://developers.videolan.org/vlc/ it says gcc, but I am not quite sure.

OK, I asked funman at IRC and he clarified the topic.
That 3.4.5 refers to gcc of mingw, so before cross-compiling, you need to check the version of mingw by typing i586-mingw32msvc-gcc --ver, not just gcc --ver.