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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.

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.

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.