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hi,

i'm interested to develop vlc by my own..where can i find the documentation/steps on how to build it using the source codes provided by your goodself.
thank you

Have a look to the wiki Developers_Corner page, which is the entry point for this. VLC code source (mainly in C language) is managed using Git SCM.

Many developers are connected to #videolan on freenode IRC network. You can also subscribe to mailing lists (@see http://www.videolan.org/developers/).

hi,
Thank You for the information......
i'm sorry to bother you again....I have go through the sites. I have downloaded the vlc source codes but i get confused what to follow as the given websites has many information. i am a window user and i have cygwin n git installed on my pc.....so by this i need to follow the steps provided for windows rite (Win32CompileCygwinNew). correct me if i'm wrong and please clear my doubts.
Thank You

I do not use Windows to compile (like most developers), but yes I think you have to work with Win32CompileCygwinNew.

For you information, contribs (pre-compiled dependancies like FFmpeg, etc) can often be found at one of those locations:
http://people.videolan.org/~jb/Contribs/
http://download.videolan.org/pub/testing/contrib/win32/

Hi,

When i tried to compile the VLC source codes using visual studio it gives error " Error 27 error C2373: 'inet_pton' : redefinition; different type modifiers c:\documents and settings\user\desktop\kantaris\vlc_source\vlc\include\network.h 137 plugin_access_output_udp"
What it the possibilities for this error as i not able to fix it till todate...

Thank You

DO not use VIsual studio

hi,

I do go thru your websites but not able to get the idea on how to develop it...If you dont mine can you provide on the steps on how to build it as i find its very difficult to compile it...You have mentioned in your earlier reply that to compile vlc should not use visual studio..So whats the software to use for the compilation of vlc source codes...
Please guide.....
thank you

hi,

Copy them in your ~

tar xvjf contrib-20090813-win32-bin-gcc-4.2.1-sjlj-runtime-3.15.2-only.tar.bz2 -C /
rm -v /usr/win32/bin/moc /usr/win32/bin/uic /usr/win32/bin/rcc


Where should i copy the above... i have tried unzip the particular file in c:/mysys > Am i right doing this..... and i encounter lots of compilation errors when i go to the next steps . I'm using Win32CompileMSYSNew to compile the source codes. I have tried more than a week and still not able to compile using the said method to make whole complete vlc application. Please help me on this

Thank You

Copy them from the MSys command line.