How to compile on Windows using Cygwin

[VLC_help]

I think there might be a issue in some Cygwin tool, because you get same issue as someone else.
http://osdir.com/ml/db.monetdb.user/200 ... 00009.html

downgrading some tool prolly fixes the issue.

[aik]

Which tools? I read that thread, their solution was to download some source code package with ready "configure" script, so it did not require buildtools and bootstrap - but that is not our case, isn't it?

[VLC_help]

Could you paste the problematic lines from file.am to here?

[aik]

Could you paste the problematic lines from file.am to here?

I cannot define which file actually causes the problem. My understanding from the link on osdir is that macros like _plugin_la_SOURCES are expanded incorrectly (underscores instead of minuses or something like that).

I am still thinking that it would be better if somebody just repeats my steps and posts the log here...

[neilhollingum]

I am following the instructions to compile under Cygwin from http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32CompileCygwinNew.

I have just installed Cygwin and used git to obtain sources successfully. However when I try the ./bootstrap I get the failure below. Can anybody help me understand what is wrong please. I get the failure message

autoreconf-2.63: running: aclocal --force -I m4
' is already registered with AC_CONFIG_FILES.



Full copy of log below.

I would appreciate any help that is available.

Best Regards

Neil Hollingum

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$ cd VLC

neil@simplyxp /cygdrive/g/VLC
$ git clone git://git.videolan.org/vlc.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /cygdrive/g/VLC/vlc/.git/
remote: Generating pack...
remote: Counting objects: 85071
remote: Done counting 258167 objects.
remote: Deltifying 258167 objects...
remote: 100% (258167/258167) done
remote: Total 258167 (delta 206602), reused 252844 (delta 202304)
Receiving objects: 100% (258167/258167), 124.96 MiB | 590 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (206602/206602), done.
Checking out files: 100% (3570/3570), done.

neil@simplyxp /cygdrive/g/VLC
$ cd vlc

neil@simplyxp /cygdrive/g/VLC/vlc
$ ./bootstrap
++ dirname ./bootstrap
+ cd .
+ ACLOCAL_ARGS='-I m4 '
+ test -d extras/contrib/bin
++ uname -s
+ test .CYGWIN_NT-5.1 = .Darwin
+ pkg-config --version
+ PKGCONFIG=yes
+ export AUTOPOINT
+ test ''
+ AUTOPOINT=autopoint
+ autopoint --dry-run --force
+ set +x
generating modules/**/Makefile.am
..............................................................................
+ echo
+ echo
+ cp -f INSTALL INSTALL.git
+ autoreconf --install --force --verbose -I m4
autoreconf-2.63: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf-2.63: running: autopoint --force
Copying file ABOUT-NLS
Copying file autotools/config.rpath
Copying file m4/codeset.m4
Copying file m4/gettext.m4
Copying file m4/iconv.m4
Copying file m4/intdiv0.m4
Copying file m4/intmax.m4
Copying file m4/inttypes-h.m4
Copying file m4/inttypes-pri.m4
Copying file m4/inttypes_h.m4
Copying file m4/lib-link.m4
Copying file m4/lock.m4
Copying file m4/longdouble.m4
Copying file m4/longlong.m4
Copying file m4/po.m4
Copying file m4/printf-posix.m4
Copying file m4/signed.m4
Copying file m4/size_max.m4
Copying file m4/stdint_h.m4
Copying file m4/uintmax_t.m4
Copying file m4/ulonglong.m4
Copying file m4/wint_t.m4
Copying file po/Makefile.in.in
Copying file po/Makevars.template
Copying file po/Rules-quot
Copying file po/boldquot.sed
Copying file po/en@boldquot.header
Copying file po/en@quot.header
Copying file po/insert-header.sin
Copying file po/quot.sed
Copying file po/remove-potcdate.sin
autoreconf-2.63: running: aclocal --force -I m4
' is already registered with AC_CONFIG_FILES.
/usr/src/packages/autoconf/26/autoconf2.5-2.63-1/src/autoconf-2.63/lib/autoconf/
status.m4:305: AC_CONFIG_FILES is expanded from...
configure.ac:5812: the top level
autom4te-2.63: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal-1.10: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
autoreconf-2.63: aclocal failed with exit status: 1

neil@simplyxp /cygdrive/g/VLC/vlc


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[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Grep AC_CONFIG_FILES in configure.ac, fusion the two AC_CONFIG_FILES sections.

[aik]

My problem has gone when I totally reinstalled cygwin. The previous one was a pretty old (1.5 years or something) which I updated a week ago - looks like it differs a lot from the cygwin installed from the scratch.

[neilhollingum]

I have a problem with compling VLC. ".infig.status: error: cannot find input file:"

I previously had a problem with ./bootstrap:-

autoreconf-2.63: running: aclocal --force -I m4
' is already registered with AC_CONFIG_FILES.
/usr/src/packages/autoconf/26/autoconf2.5-2.63-1/src/autoconf-2.63/lib/autoconf/
status.m4:305: AC_CONFIG_FILES is expanded from...
configure.ac:5812: the top level
autom4te-2.63: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal-1.10: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
autoreconf-2.63: aclocal failed with exit status: 1

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j-b suggested
Grep AC_CONFIG_FILES in configure.ac, fusion the two AC_CONFIG_FILES sections.
Jean-Baptiste Kempf

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Thank you Jean-Baptiste Kempf as this seems to have overcome the first problem.

I then continued with instructions and downloaded
contrib-20080811-win32-bin-gcc-4.2.1-sjlj-runtime-3.13-only.tar.bz2

Tar seemed to work fine.

Deleted moc, rcc and uic linux executables from \cygwin\usr\win32

Built configure-vls.sh script:-
PATH=/usr/win32/bin:$PATH \
PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=/usr/win32/lib/pkgconfig \
CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/win32/include -I/usr/win32/include/ebml" \
LDFLAGS=-L/usr/win32/lib \
CC="gcc -mno-cygwin" CXX="g++ -mno-cygwin" \
./configure \
--host=i686-pc-mingw32 \
--disable-gtk \
--enable-nls --enable-sdl --with-sdl-config-path=/usr/win32/bin \
--enable-avcodec --enable-avformat --enable-swscale \
--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 \
--enable-live555 --with-live555-tree=/usr/win32/live.com \
--enable-caca --with-caca-config-path=/usr/win32/bin \
--with-xml2-config-path=/usr/win32/bin \
--with-dvdnav-config-path=/usr/win32/bin \
--disable-cddax --disable-vcdx --enable-goom \
--enable-twolame --enable-dvdread \
--enable-debug --enable-dca \
--disable-mkv --disable-taglib

Ran dos2unix configure-vlc.sh

copied to vlc directory

ran ./configure-vlc.sh

. . . . . . . . Last part of log results is:--

checking for LIBGCRYPT - version >= 1.1.94... yes (1.4.1)
checking LIBGCRYPT API version... okay
checking for GNUTLS... yes
checking whether to enable RAOP plugin... yes
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no
checking for midl... no
checking ole2.h usability... yes
checking ole2.h presence... yes
checking for ole2.h... yes
checking olectl.h usability... yes
checking olectl.h presence... yes
checking for olectl.h... yes
checking for objsafe.h... yes
checking for osso_display_blanking_pause in -losso... no
checking for XSPSetPixelDoubling in -lXsp... no
configure: creating ./vlc-config.in
configure: creating ./config.status
.infig.status: error: cannot find input file:

neil@simplyxp /cygdrive/g/vlc/vlc

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I am not clear what input file I am missing!

Do you have any suggestions for how to proceed from here.

Best Regards

Neil Hollingum

[neilhollingum]

FIxed the problem which was caused by using Windows editor to fix the AC_CONFIG_FILES and not running dos2unix on the result. I have now completed the configure-vls.sh and continued on to the make. I have now hit another problem.

libtool: link: link -dump -symbols .libs/libvlccore_la-libvlc.o .libs/libvlccor
e_la-libvlc-module.o .libs/libvlccore_la-missing.o .libs/libvlccore_la-version.o
interface/.libs/libvlccore_la-interface.o interface/.libs/libvlccore_la-intf_ej
ect.o interface/.libs/libvlccore_la-interaction.o playlist/.libs/libvlccore_la-t
hread.o playlist/.libs/libvlccore_la-control.o playlist/.libs/libvlccore_la-engi
ne.o playlist/.libs/libvlccore_la-sort.o playlist/.libs/libvlccore_la-loadsave.o
playlist/.libs/libvlccore_la-tree.o playlist/.libs/libvlccore_la-item.o playlis
t/.libs/libvlccore_la-search.o playlist/.libs/libvlccore_la-services_discovery.o
input/.libs/libvlccore_la-item.o input/.libs/libvlccore_la-access.o input/.libs
/libvlccore_la-clock.o input/.libs/libvlccore_la-control.o input/.libs/libvlccor
e_la-decoder.o input/.libs/libvlccore_la-decoder_synchro.o input/.libs/libvlccor
e_la-demux.o input/.libs/libvlccore_la-es_out.o input/.libs/libvlccore_la-es_out
_timeshift.o input/.libs/libvlccore_la-event.o input/.libs/libvlccore_la-input.o
input/.libs/libvlccore_la-meta.o input/.libs/libvlccore_la-stream.o input/.libs
/libvlccore_la-stream_demux.o input/.libs/libvlccore_la-stream_filter.o input/.l
ibs/libvlccore_la-stream_memory.o input/.libs/libvlccore_la-subtitles.o input/.l
ibs/libvlccore_la-var.o video_output/.libs/libvlccore_la-video_output.o video_ou
tput/.libs/libvlccore_la-vout_pictures.o video_output/.libs/libvlccore_la-video_
text.o video_output/.libs/libvlccore_la-video_widgets.o video_output/.libs/libvl
ccore_la-vout_subpictures.o video_output/.libs/libvlccore_la-vout_intf.o audio_o
utput/.libs/libvlccore_la-common.o audio_output/.libs/libvlccore_la-dec.o audio_
output/.libs/libvlccore_la-filters.o audio_output/.libs/libvlccore_la-input.o au
dio_output/.libs/libvlccore_la-mixer.o audio_output/.libs/libvlccore_la-output.o
audio_output/.libs/libvlccore_la-intf.o osd/.libs/libvlccore_la-osd.o osd/.libs
/libvlccore_la-osd_text.o osd/.libs/libvlccore_la-osd_widgets.o network/.libs/li
bvlccore_la-acl.o network/.libs/libvlccore_la-getaddrinfo.o network/.libs/libvlc
core_la-io.o network/.libs/libvlccore_la-tcp.o network/.libs/libvlccore_la-udp.o
network/.libs/libvlccore_la-rootbind.o network/.libs/libvlccore_la-tls.o networ
k/.libs/libvlccore_la-poll.o text/.libs/libvlccore_la-charset.o text/.libs/libvl
ccore_la-strings.o text/.libs/libvlccore_la-unicode.o text/.libs/libvlccore_la-f
ilesystem.o text/.libs/libvlccore_la-wincp.o text/.libs/libvlccore_la-iso_lang.o
misc/.libs/libvlccore_la-md5.o misc/.libs/libvlccore_la-rand.o misc/.libs/libvl
ccore_la-mtime.o misc/.libs/libvlccore_la-block.o misc/.libs/libvlccore_la-es_fo
rmat.o modules/.libs/libvlccore_la-modules.o modules/.libs/libvlccore_la-cache.o
modules/.libs/libvlccore_la-entry.o modules/.libs/libvlccore_la-os.o misc/.libs
/libvlccore_la-threads.o misc/.libs/libvlccore_la-stats.o misc/.libs/libvlccore_
la-cpu.o misc/.libs/libvlccore_la-action.o config/.libs/libvlccore_la-core.o con
fig/.libs/libvlccore_la-dirs.o config/.libs/libvlccore_la-chain.o config/.libs/l
ibvlccore_la-file.o config/.libs/libvlccore_la-intf.o config/.libs/libvlccore_la
-cmdline.o misc/.libs/libvlccore_la-events.o misc/.libs/libvlccore_la-image.o mi
sc/.libs/libvlccore_la-messages.o misc/.libs/libvlccore_la-objects.o misc/.libs/
libvlccore_la-variables.o misc/.libs/libvlccore_la-error.o misc/.libs/libvlccore
_la-update.o misc/.libs/libvlccore_la-xml.o misc/.libs/libvlccore_la-devices.o e
xtras/.libs/libvlccore_la-libc.o misc/.libs/libvlccore_la-filter_chain.o misc/.l
ibs/libvlccore_la-win32_specific.o network/.libs/libvlccore_la-winsock.o extras/
.libs/libvlccore_la-getopt.o extras/.libs/libvlccore_la-getopt1.o network/.libs/
libvlccore_la-httpd.o stream_output/.libs/libvlccore_la-stream_output.o stream_o
utput/.libs/libvlccore_la-announce.o stream_output/.libs/libvlccore_la-sap.o str
eam_output/.libs/libvlccore_la-sdp.o input/.libs/libvlccore_la-vlm.o input/.libs
/libvlccore_la-vlmshell.o misc/.libs/libvlccore_la-revision.o | | /usr/bin/se
d -e '/^[BCDGRS][ ]/s/.*[ ]\([^ ]*\)/\1 DATA/;/^.*[ ]__nm__/s/^.*[ ]__nm__\([^ ]
*\)[ ][^ ]*/\1 DATA/;/^I[ ]/d;/^[AITW][ ]/s/.* //' | sort | uniq > .libs/libvlcc
ore.exp
../libtool: eval: line 977: syntax error near unexpected token `|'


Searching the forum I see that other people have already hit this problem and found a fix for this by editing and correcting libtool, but their make then suffered later with other problems.

viewtopic.php?f=32&t=53381&p=174494&hil ... 27#p174727

Later posts indicate that this fix does not work on 0.9.4 or 0.9.6 either:

viewtopic.php?f=32&t=53381&p=174494&hil ... 27#p177757

Is there anybody succeeding in building VLC on Windows for version 0.9.8 - does MSys actually work? or should I use a VMWARE version of Ubuntu?

Best Regards

Neil Hollingum

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Well, fixing the || should work everywhere.

I personnaly use MSys now, because it is faster and I can provide you a VirtualBox VM running Ubuntu and with a correct VLC setup if you want.

[aik]

My problem has gone when I totally reinstalled cygwin. The previous one was a pretty old (1.5 years or something) which I updated a week ago - looks like it differs a lot from the cygwin installed from the scratch.

I was wrong. Not all the problems have gone on reinstallation - I did not check the whole process - my vacation started
What really helped me is that cygwin's setup eventually said that the repository I used before (ftp.chg.ru) is no longer valid. So I reinstalled cygwin from www.goh4.com (the first server in the setup.exe list), and the only problems I had were:

viewtopic.php?f=14&t=50360&p=180119#p180119
viewtopic.php?f=14&p=175301#p175301

I guess it would be helpful for everybody to put those links somewhere at http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32CompileCygwinNew

[VLC_help]

QT4 problem link already exist in the guide.

[m.e]

... and I can provide you a VirtualBox VM running Ubuntu and with a correct VLC setup if you want.

That would be awesomely great!

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

... and I can provide you a VirtualBox VM running Ubuntu and with a correct VLC setup if you want.

That would be awesomely great!

Contact me by mail.

[aik]

QT4 problem link already exist in the guide.

You right
However the problem with "cannot find -lqjpeg" does not. Furthermore the fix (comment out Q_IMPORT_PLUGIN(qjpeg) in qt4.cpp) does help for the GIT version of VLC (it the very last, right?), but does NOT for vlc-0.9.8a. Any ideas?

[bryanair]

That broken pipe fix might be failing if someone copied it from the screen or from the quote in the forum, rather than copying directly from the /usr/bin/libtool line which has tabs, not spaces. Or use [[:blank:]] as shown
viewtopic.php?f=32&t=55405&p=183346&hil ... 5D#p183346

However I have other problems too, have tripled up with two other developers doing MSys and FreeBSD cross-compile (native FreeBSD port compiles 0.9.8a fine, but lots of broken things like this when attempting cross compile). I installed Ubuntu 8.10 so I could attempt cross with that, else with VM

FIxed the problem which was caused by using Windows editor to fix the AC_CONFIG_FILES and not running dos2unix on the result. I have now completed the configure-vls.sh and continued on to the make. I have now hit another problem.

libtool: link: link -dump -symbols .libs/libvlccore_la-libvlc.o .libs/libvlccor
e_la-libvlc-module.o .libs/libvlccore_la-missing.o .libs/libvlccore_la-version.o

<etc>

eam_output/.libs/libvlccore_la-sdp.o input/.libs/libvlccore_la-vlm.o input/.libs
/libvlccore_la-vlmshell.o misc/.libs/libvlccore_la-revision.o | | /usr/bin/se
d -e '/^[BCDGRS][ ]/s/.*[ ]\([^ ]*\)/\1 DATA/;/^.*[ ]__nm__/s/^.*[ ]__nm__\([^ ]
*\)[ ][^ ]*/\1 DATA/;/^I[ ]/d;/^[AITW][ ]/s/.* //' | sort | uniq > .libs/libvlcc
ore.exp
../libtool: eval: line 977: syntax error near unexpected token `|'


Searching the forum I see that other people have already hit this problem and found a fix for this by editing and correcting libtool, but their make then suffered later with other problems.

viewtopic.php?f=32&t=53381&p=174494&hil ... 27#p174727

Later posts indicate that this fix does not work on 0.9.4 or 0.9.6 either:

viewtopic.php?f=32&t=53381&p=174494&hil ... 27#p177757

Is there anybody succeeding in building VLC on Windows for version 0.9.8 - does MSys actually work? or should I use a VMWARE version of Ubuntu?

Best Regards

Neil Hollingum

[giangy11]

hi
it's my first post here...

i'm looking for the latest versions of contrib-file but the links on previous pages doesn't work anymore.
Where i can find these files?

I ask this because i've some errors on bootstrap:

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

libtool is missing.

[Jeremiah]

http://people.videolan.org/ can not open now....

what's the matter?

[giangy11]

libtool is missing.

where can i donwload it?
i've checked in cygwin installation and it was on

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Server is dead.

[giangy11]

i've tried again with another pc (cygwin fully installed with latest versions plugins), and when i run bootstrap happens this:



thanks for your patience

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Permission denied!

[giangy11]

so what i've to do?

[giangy11]

now i try with "chmod 777 configure-vlc.sh"