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Hello,
Recently I compiled the VLC 0.8.5 version with cygwin, but it can't execute and without any error message. (I installed the VLC binary already.)

However, when I compiled the VLC0.8.4a, it could run on windows correctly. Why? What's the difference between the two versions.

In addition, I used the old tools to do the build process(gcc 3.3.3, ....)
because I tried to use the gcc 3.4.2 with newest utility, compiler is always complaining.

Thanks,
Frank

hi

a possible reason is that you need to delete your settings, in %appdata%\vlc or by using the start menu shortcut

if you managed to compile vlc, don't update your cygwin environment because it is broken at the moment

Thanks.
I will try it later and you post the result here.

Best,
Frank

Sorry for error typing.
I will try it later and post the result here.

Best,
Frank

Hi,
I tried to load the vlc from menu. This time it displays the message as follows in the command prompt window:

"The command line options couldn't be loaded, check that they are valid.
Press the RETURN key to continue ..."

When I pressed the RETURN key, everything is gone.

Best regards,
Frank

Cygwin compilation is severely broken. I vaguely remember your issue where I had to revert binutils package. That problem is described in the cygwin howto on the developers page and might be related: http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/cygwin-compile.txt

NOTE: It is extremely important to DOWNGRADE binutils from 20060709-1 to
20050610-01 (will otherwise give weird results like VLC gui not opening)

But beware, updating -anything- in Cygwin at the moment might render the whole environment useless as is mentioned in the sticky post: viewtopic.php?t=27162