Anyone interested in building VLC for WinCE?

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Anyone interested in building VLC for WinCE?

Postby jockyw2001 » 24 Jul 2007 17:53

I've built a toolchain for cygwin according to instructions I found here: http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Compi ... Windows_CE
I've downloaded 0.8.4a sourcecode in order to verify that it can actually build a VLC for WINCE version which is know to work. However, as could be expected, I get a lot of compile errors. I will try again on linux this evening, which can make a difference of course.

Did anyone manage to build 0.8.4a or later recently? If so, was it with the supplied toolchain (http://download.videolan.org/pub/videol ... ing/wince/) or with another like gnuarm (http://www.gnuarm.com) or cegcc (http://cegcc.sourceforge.net/) ? Anyone interested in getting current svn to work on WinCE?

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Re: Anyone interested in building VLC for WinCE?

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 25 Jul 2007 10:41

Ok...

Noone has built VLC for WinCE lately because no developer really cares about it. So I guess you have to stick to 0.8.4 with that old tutorial.

Anyway, I got a solution for you: "cegcc".

You should be able to build, with some hacks, VLC and the contribs system with that toolchain. Compile first ffmpeg, then the rest of the VLC subsystem.
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Re: Anyone interested in building VLC for WinCE?

Postby jockyw2001 » 25 Jul 2007 11:24

Thanks for the tips j-b, I'll try cegcc.
If I succeed then I will let you know here.

There are so many fancy Windows Mobile devices out there, so I'm actually surprised there is so little interest.
But then again there are not that many geeks who like building toolchains and who have time and endurance to solve nasty errors :)

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Re: Anyone interested in building VLC for WinCE?

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 25 Jul 2007 11:31

I think that the problem is more "Windows" that doesn't like geeks.
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Re: Anyone interested in building VLC for WinCE?

Postby jockyw2001 » 25 Jul 2007 13:50

Or do you mean geeks who don't like Windowz.


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