Compiling under windows
Posted: 05 Aug 2010 07:07
I want to tinker around with things a bit, see if i can get the skins and the HTML interface to do what I want. So I am trying to setup a build env on my machine (windows vista 64)
Normally I use Eclipse/Ant/Java for my development work. I have coded with c/c++ a long time ago (10+ years), so I am trying to follow the directions exactly to get a working compile first, before I tinker with anything.
I am following the directions at
http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32CompileMSYSNew
(I added a line to the wiki to add the C:\MinGW\bin to the path, I learned that via IRC)
(I also corrected the URL for the coreutils as the URL changed slightly since it was last edited)
I went through and followed the directions exactly (with two options... I actually installed the core utils, instead of making the fake whoami and hostname... and I am using git to get the newest VLC code)
when i got to the bootstrap section of "Build VLC", I ran the commands, but got the following
When i asked on IRC, i was told "autoconf devel not correctly installed"
but I downloaded the autoconf-2.63-1-msys-1.0.11-bin.tar.lzma file and extracted it into the C:\Msys\1.0 directory
I know I am doing something wrong, I just don't know what.
Normally I use Eclipse/Ant/Java for my development work. I have coded with c/c++ a long time ago (10+ years), so I am trying to follow the directions exactly to get a working compile first, before I tinker with anything.
I am following the directions at
http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32CompileMSYSNew
(I added a line to the wiki to add the C:\MinGW\bin to the path, I learned that via IRC)
(I also corrected the URL for the coreutils as the URL changed slightly since it was last edited)
I went through and followed the directions exactly (with two options... I actually installed the core utils, instead of making the fake whoami and hostname... and I am using git to get the newest VLC code)
when i got to the bootstrap section of "Build VLC", I ran the commands, but got the following
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Patrick@QUUTAR ~/vlc
$ PATH=/usr/win32/bin:$PATH ./bootstrap
++ dirname ./bootstrap
+ cd .
+ ACLOCAL_ARGS='-I m4 '
+ test -d extras/contrib/build/bin
++ uname -s
+ test .MINGW32_NT-6.0 = .Darwin
+ pkg-config --version
+ PKGCONFIG=yes
+ export AUTOPOINT
+ test ''
+ AUTOPOINT=autopoint
+ autopoint --dry-run --force
+ AUTOPOINT=true
+ echo
+ set +x
generating modules/**/Makefile.am
............................................................................
+ echo
+ echo
+ cp -f INSTALL INSTALL.git
+ autoreconf --install --force --verbose -I m4
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: running: true --force
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4
/usr/share/aclocal/autoopts.m4:22: warning: underquoted definition of AG_PATH_AUTOOPTS
/usr/share/aclocal/autoopts.m4:22: run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
/usr/share/aclocal/autoopts.m4:22: or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
' is already registered with AC_CONFIG_FILES.
/usr/src/autoconf/autoconf-2.63/lib/autoconf/status.m4:305: AC_CONFIG_FILES is expanded from...
/usr/share/aclocal-1.11/cond-if.m4:39: AM_COND_IF is expanded from...
configure.ac:4780: the top level
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: 1but I downloaded the autoconf-2.63-1-msys-1.0.11-bin.tar.lzma file and extracted it into the C:\Msys\1.0 directory
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Patrick@QUUTAR /usr/share
$ ls
aclocal aclocal-1.11 aclocal-1.7 autoconf autogen automake-1.11 automake-1.7 doc file guile libtool locale vim