Windows CE - Which compiler?

[coder]

I'm planning to work fully with the WinCE VideoLan player and contribute as much as i can afford in the community.

I downloaded the most recent version from the cvs but I have some linking problems which I think are due to wrong version of the embeded C++ an d SDK that i use.

Could someone tell me which embedded Visual C++ version (+SP) should I use and under which SDK can be linked?

Thanks in advance
A coder from Greece

[Guest]

Whoever has the same question, current VideoLAN CE version compiles only with ARM-gcc-crosscompiler under a linux machine. I found the tools with some crosscompiled libraries (which do not work with latest build but works with past builds)

1)http://www.videolan.org/pub/testing/win ... er.tar.bz2
2)http://download.videolan.org/pub/testin ... in.tar.bz2
3)Read the following (I found them somewhere on the web)

$Id$

INSTALL file for the WinCE version of the VLC media player


Building VLC from the source code
=================================

If you want to build VLC from sources, you can do it in several ways:

- On GNU/Linux, using the wince gcc cross-compiler.
(Right now we only provide an ARM version of the cross-compiler)

- Natively on Windows, using Microsoft Embedded Visual C++.
Even though we provide some evc project files with vlc, this method is
advised only if you just want to experiment/play with some basic
functionality in vlc. The reason for this is that vlc depends on a lot of
3rd party libraries and building them in EVC is not convenient and
sometimes even impossible.

Getting the right compiler tools
================================

You will need to download our wince gcc cross-compiler package:
http://www.videolan.org/pub/testing/win ... er.tar.bz2.
Extract this package in your root directory (everything will be extracted in
/usr/local/wince/cross-tools).

The source code for this cross-compiler in also available at the same location.

Getting the additional libraries
=================================

VLC depends on other libraries to provide some features like ac3 audio decoding
or mpeg4 video decoding, etc...

Depending on your needs you will have to compile/install some or all of these
external libraries.

They can be found here (source code):
http://download.videolan.org/pub/testing/contrib/

We also provide a package with all the libraries already compiled so it is
actually really easy to compile a full-featured version of vlc:
http://download.videolan.org/pub/testin ... in.tar.bz2 (Check out fo more recent versions at the same location).

All you need to do is extract it in your root directory (the include files
and libraries will be put in /usr/local/wince/contrib-xscale).
You can do this with the following command:

tar xjvf contrib-20050220-wince-xscale-bin.tar.bz2 -C /

Please note the "-C /".

A complete list of the libraries on which we depend can be found here:
http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/

Configuring the build
=====================

Once you've got all the files you need in place, you need to configure the
build with the `./configure' script.

I'll assume that you are using the pre-compiled 3rd party libraries I'm
providing and that they are in /usr/local/wince/contrib-xscale.

Use something along those lines:

./bootstrap &&
PATH=/usr/local/wince/cross-tools/bin:$PATH \
CFLAGS="-D__stdcall= -D_OFF_T_ -I/usr/local/wince/cross-tools/include" \
CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I/usr/local/wince/contrib-xscale/include" \
LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/wince/cross-tools/lib" \
LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/wince/contrib-xscale/lib" \
CC="arm-wince-pe-gcc -mcpu=xscale" \
../configure --host=arm-wince-pe --target=arm-wince-pe \
--build=i686-linux --prefix=/usr/local/wince \
--disable-sdl --disable-gtk --disable-dvdnav --disable-dvdread \
--disable-nls --disable-sout --disable-vlm --disable-wxwindows \
--disable-a52 --disable-libmpeg2 --disable-freetype --disable-fribidi \
--disable-mad --disable-plugins \
--with-freetype-config-path=/usr/local/wince-xscale/bin \
--with-fribidi-config-path=/usr/local/wince-xscale/bin \
--enable-tremor --enable-faad

See `./configure --help' for more information.

Actually Compiling the VLC source
=================================

Once configured, to build VLC, just run:
PATH=/usr/local/wince/cross-tools/bin:$PATH make

Once the compilation is done, you can build self-contained VLC packages with
the following 'make' rules:

make package-win32-base
will create a subdirectory named vlc-x.x.x with all the binaries
'stripped' (ie. without any debugging symbols).

make package-win32-zip
Same as above but will package the directory in a zip file.

Well done, now you're ready to use VLC!
=======================================

Coder

[Nik]

I found the tools with some crosscompiled libraries (which do not work with latest build but works with past builds)

Can you tell us which past builds compile on WINCE. I had a hard time to find any build that compiles with contrib-20050220-wince-xscale-bin.tar.bz2

3)Read the following (I found them somewhere on the web)
$Id$
INSTALL file for the WinCE version of the VLC media player

Building VLC from the source code
=================================

If you want to build VLC from sources, you can do it in several ways:

- On GNU/Linux, using the wince gcc cross-compiler.
(Right now we only provide an ARM version of the cross-compiler)

.....
etc. etc

Reading this doesn't help because the script does's work. For example,

--with-freetype-config-path=/usr/local/wince-xscale/bin \
--with-fribidi-config-path=/usr/local/wince-xscale/bin \

These two lines are wrong. The path is /usr/local/wince/contrib-xscale/bin
The ../configure is also wrong. It should be ./configure if you are executing the script from the vls-trunk.

For some reason the WINCE port is missing the latest contrib library builds. They simply are not posted to the videolan server. I managed to build with some ugly workarounds but the player has problems with mpeg4. I know this is a redundunt work but the developer mailing list do not respond and I am continuing to fixing this. I let you know guys when I have a working solution.

Nik
Toronto, Canada

[coder]

Nik did you ever manage to compile the ffmpeg library for wince? The only library i was managed to compile is the libmpeg2, but it is not of use for vlc

[alenliau]

the install.wince is arm xscale + wince
if i want to use vlc in arm9 2410+wince.net, have any one succeed in it , or how is the feasibility?

[ruihong]

May I consult a question? Would the MPlayer be compiled for wince in the same way?
Or, may someone would teach me how to compile mplayer for the wince plateform?
Thanks so much!