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Hello,
My target is VLC activeX and Player for 64 bit Windows.
I'm starter for MinGW, MSYS and Cygwin. But I understood what are those.
To understand myself, I've done compiled and packaged with source 1.1.13 (32-bit).
At this moment with VLC 2.0.0., I compiled and packaged to 32 bit VLC by next:

• Wiki: "http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32CompileMSYSNew"
  MinGW: tdm-gcc-4.6.1.exe from "http://sourceforge.net/projects/tdm-gcc ... Installer/"
  and installed to c:\MinGW32
  Msys: MSYS-1.0.11.exe from "http://sourceforge.net/project/download ... 1.0.11.exe"
  and installed to c:\msys\1.0
  MsysDTK: msysDTK-1.0.1.exe from "http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/f ... DTK-1.0.1/"
  Source: vlc-2.0.0.tar.xz from "http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-sources.html"
  and unzip to c:\msys\1.0\home\Administrator\vlc ( /home/Administrator/vlc)
  and not used "configure-msys.sh" and "configure-common.sh"
  Lua: lua-5.2.0.tar.gz from "http://www.lua.org/ftp/"
  Precompiled contribs: contrib-20111017-win32-bin-gcc-4.4.4-runtime-3.17-only.tar.bz2 from "http://people.videolan.org/~jb/Contribs/"

• $ cd vlc
  $ cp -v /usr/win32/share/aclocal/* m4/
  $ cp -v /usr/share/aclocal/* m4/
  $ PATH=/usr/win32/bin:$PATH ./bootstrap

I got error.

• $ sh extras/package/win32/configure.sh
  ...
  checking for live555 version 132459800 or later... no
  configure: WARNING: liveMedia is missing or its installed ....
  configure: error: Update live555 or pass .....

So I update contribs package to lastest "i586-mingw32msvc" from "ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/con ... ngw32msvc/" and process again.

• Download "vlc-contrib-i586-mingw32msvc-20120217.tar.bz2"
  extract to c:\msys\1.0\win32
  $ sh extras/package/win32/configure.sh --with-contrib=/usr/win32
  ...
  libvlc configuration
  -----------------------
  version : 2.0.0
  system : mingw32
  ...
  To build vlc and its plugins, type 'make', or './compile' if you ...

I passed and tried make

• $ PATH=/usr/win32/bin:$PATH make
  make all-recursive
  ...
  c:\msys\1.0\bin\luac.exe: lua/playlist/appletrailers.lua:70: invalid escape sequence near '\.'
  make[2]: *** [lua/playlist/appletrailers.luac] Error 1
  make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/Administrator/vlc/share'
  ...

I got error.
So I disabled lua with configure and make. But error has been occurred.

• $ sh extras/package/win32/configure.sh --with-contrib=/usr/win32 --disable-lua
  $ PATH=/usr/win32/bin:$PATH make
  ../libtool: line 6046: cd: @@CONTRIB_PREFIX@@/lib: No such file or directory
  libtool: link: cannot determine absolute directory name of '@@CONTRIB_PREFIX@@/lib'
  make[4]: *** [libvlccore.la] Error 1
  make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/Administrator/vlc/src'
  ...
  make: *** [all] Error 2

I passed configure but make is not.
The folder name change "/usr/win32" to "/usr/i586-mingw32msvc" and I should run "change_prefix.sh" in "/usr/i586-mingw32msvc" folder.

• $ PATH=/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/bin:$PATH ./bootstrap
  $ sh extras/package/win32/configure.sh --host=i586-mingw32msvc --build=i386-linux --with-contrib=/usr/i586-mingw32msvc --disable-lua --disable-zvbi
  $ PATH=/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/bin:$PATH make
  ...
  make[5]: Entering directory '/home/Administrator/vlc/modules/gui/qt4'
  MOC main_interface.moc.cpp
  /bin/sh: /usr/i586-mingw32msvc/bin/moc: cannot execute.....
  make[5]: *** [main_interface.moc.cpp] Error ..
  ...
  make: *** [all] Error 2

A "/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/bin/moc" file cannot runable. So "/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/bin/moc", "/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/bin/rcc" and "/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/bin/uic" shall delete and "make" again.

• $ PATH=/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/bin:$PATH make
  ...
  make[5]: Entering directory '/home/Administrator/vlc/modules/gui/qt4'
  MOC main_interface.moc.cpp
  /bin/sh: /usr/i586-mingw32msvc/bin/moc: Bad File number
  make[5]: *** [main_interface.moc.cpp] Error ..
  ...
  make: *** [all] Error 2

I got a "Bad file number" error message. So "moc.exe", "rcc.exe", "uic.exe" files coppied from orignal that those not processed "chage_prefix.sh".
I did "make" again and no error.
I tried package for win32 and got "git: command not found" error.

• $ make package-win32
  ..
  git clone "git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git" npapi-vlc
  make: git: Command not found
  make: *** [stamp-npapi-fetch] Error 127
  ...

A "git" should be installed and restart from "./bootstrap" cause I have seen that error when "./bootstrap " was processeed.
( A git download install & executable file from "http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list". )

• $ PATH=/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/bin:$PATH ./bootstrap
  $ sh extras/package/win32/configure.sh --host=i586-mingw32msvc --build=i386-linux --with-contrib=/usr/i586-mingw32msvc --disable-lua --disable-zvbi
  $ PATH=/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/bin:$PATH make
  $ make package-win32
  ...
  /bin/m4: cannot remove temporary directory ..... Directory not empty
  autom4te-2.68: /bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
  aclocal: /usr/bin/autom4te-2.68 failed with exit status: 1
  autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
  make: *** [stamp-npapi-autogen] Error 1

"automake 1.11" is installed already. But I have above error.

I don't know what is correct contirbs version files for 32bit and 64bit for VLC 2.0.0 and what I need modify "configure" option.

Who can help me?

My suggestion, Install Virtualbox and Ubuntu to it by following
http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32Compile_Under_Fedora (Create and attach the disk drives part)
then
http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32Compile

do this:

dos2unix configure.ac

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