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I get the following result when trying to execute "PATH=/usr/win32/bin:$PATH ./bootstrap
" from http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32CompileMSYSNew:
I'm running Windows 7 Professional. I followed the install guide to the letter starting from a clean base, except for downloading http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries ... 0.23-2.zip since it didn't appear to work anymore, instead I downloaded http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries ... _win32.zip. Tried to look for another site providing the 23-2 version.. but couldn't find any.

That could very well be an issue, but since the file dates from the 8th of July, I find it hard to believe I'm the first one running into this problem. But maybe they only just removed the old link or maybe I didn't search the forum correctly...

If anyone would have any idea how I could fix it, that would be great.

Thanks in advance,
Marijn

automake --version?
autoconf --version?

$ automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.11

$ autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.63

Some additional info

-I assumed "mv /mingw/bin/g++-sjlj.exe /mingw/bin/c++.exe" was a typo and entered "mv /mingw/bin/c++-sjlj.exe /mingw/bin/c++.exe"
-I got the source from [url]git://git.videolan.org/vlc.git[/url]
-I got http://people.videolan.org/~jb/Contribs ... ly.tar.bz2 from the contribs
-I added
to the top of the configure.ac file which allowed me to finish the bootstrap
-I updated m4 from 1.4.7 -> 1.4.13 by downloading ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.13.tar.gz, extracting it the msys home dir, and entering "./configure", "make", "make install" (I did this because viewtopic.php?f=2&t=61543)
$ m4 --version
m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.13

-now the line "sh extras/package/win32/configure-msys.sh" gives the following error: Any suggestions?

Cheers,
Marijn

pkg-config --version ?

Same errors so I thought I should continue the thread:

$ pkg-config.exe --version
0.23

Cheers,

Tisham.

Working from the same doc, Win32CompileMSYSNew, I have an XP system very similar to your's and experienced the same problems.

I found that the msys/mingw env was missing pkg.m4, which is where the PKG_CHECK_MODULES macro is defined.

I copied pkg.m4 from a Debian build system into vlc-1.0.3/m4 and bootstrap completes successfully (with your m4_pattern_allow's).

Need to look into those further as I didn't experience any such problems with a previous msys/mingw env on XP.

The issue was an errror in the howto and is fixed now.

Thanks Jean-Baptiste,

pkg-config-dev_0.23-3_win32.zip solves both the requirement for m4_pattern_allow's (^dnl ^AC_ ^AS_ ^m4) and the missing PKG_CHECK_MODULES macro definition.

I am still having the same problem.

$ PATH=/usr/win32/bin:$PATH ./bootstrap
++ dirname ./bootstrap
+ cd .
+ ACLOCAL_ARGS='-I m4 '
+ test -d extras/contrib/build/bin
++ uname -s
+ test .MINGW32_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: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: running: autopoint --force
Copying file ABOUT-NLS
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4
m4/autoopts.m4:22: warning: underquoted definition of AG_PATH_AUTOOPTS
m4/autoopts.m4:22: run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
m4/autoopts.m4:22: or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/auto ... ng-aclocal
/bin/m4:/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/autoconf.m4f:19: expecting line feed in frozen file
autom4te: /bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
C:\msys\1.0\bin\aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1


$ autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.63
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.

$ automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.11
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
and Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>.


I followed the instruction on http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32CompileMSYSNew literally and I have tried m4.1.4.7-13 and m4.1.4.7-14 and none of them help.

Can anyone suggest what might go wrong.
Thanks.