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Posted: **08 Mar 2010 04:24**

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To fix this, please be sure before you start the playback to:

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Also don't forget to name your Operating System and provide the VLC media player version.

followed instructions on: http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32CompileMSYSNew

go stuck on bootstrap VLC after coping m4:

error below:

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$ PATH=/usr/win32/bin:$PATH ./bootstrap
++ dirname ./bootstrap
+ cd .
+ ACLOCAL_ARGS='-I m4 -I /usr/win32/share/aclocal'
+ test -d extras/contrib/bin
++ uname -s
+ test .MINGW32_NT-6.1 = .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 -I /usr/win32/share/aclocal
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: running: autopoint --force
Copying file ABOUT-NLS
autoreconf: running: aclocal -I m4 --output=aclocal.m4t
aclocal: macro `AM_PROG_MKDIR_P' required but not defined
aclocal: macro `AM_PROG_MKDIR_P' required but not defined
autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1

what is wrong with my aclocal?

Posted: **08 Mar 2010 08:47**

your aclocal is too old.

Posted: **08 Mar 2010 14:47**

Thank you very much

aclocal change to 1.11 and successfully bootsrapped!

thanks, I'm off to configuring and make.

Posted: **08 Mar 2010 18:15**

Hi i'm a newbie in VLC and as x_tine i am currently trying to configure vlc in windows. I successfully bootstrapped also but i'm having problems with the configure. It gives an error about C compiler cannot create executable after running sh extras/package/win32/configure-msys.sh. I installed gcc using MingW exe and its version is 3.4.5. already overwritten with gcc 4.2.1 contribs. what's wrong?

error info:

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rishe@rk ~
$ sh extras/package/win32/configure-msys.sh
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --enable-merge-ffmpeg, --disable-sqlit
e, --enable-peflags
checking build system type... i386-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i586-pc-mingw32msvc
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for i586-mingw32msvc-strip... no
checking for strip... strip
configure: WARNING: using cross tools not prefixed with host triplet
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for i586-mingw32msvc-gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name...
configure: error: in `/home/rishe':
configure: error:[b] C compiler cannot create executables[/b]
See `config.log' for more details.

If it is still lacking I could post the log info. Thanks in advance.

Posted: **08 Mar 2010 20:04**

i think its the gcc version try running a c program.

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