Error: "Windows cannot access ..."

[mudeem]

Hi,

I have compiled vlc using the released source code vlc-0.8.5 and contrib packages version contrib-20060330-win32-bin-gcc-3.4.5-only.tar.bz2. the compilation went fine. when I execute vlc from the explorer i get the following error

"Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not have appropriate permission to access the item"

Now when I rename the exe then it works fine. I want to debug the code in ddd so would renaming the file have any effect?

There are couple of other post on the subject but they didn't solve the issue.

[dionoea]

You're trying to execute VLC from the compile directory right ?

Rename vlc.exe.manifest to something else and it'll work fine It took me about 1 week to find that solution ... really weird.

[Defiant00]

Any chance we could get this added to the instructions on the wiki? I would have but apparently the page is locked. I did add a note about it on the discussion page for the cygwin instructions, but it'd be nice to have it mentioned right after the instruction to run make.