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Posted: **24 Oct 2008 21:32**

I'm attempting to cross-compile the absolute latest source (as of 20 min. ago) using Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy heron). I can get things to compile fine. When I run the linux compile, it works just fine. But under Windows it crashes every time in a call from libvlccore.dll to msvcrt.dll. I don't have much more to go on, because I'm not given much. Here's how I'm compiling it (it's in release mode):

1. Download the source using git

2. Install the latest contribs from: http://people.videolan.org/~jb/Contribs/

Don't use the link they provide you in the developer's wiki. Those contribs are old and won't work with the latest source.
sudo tar jxf <contrib file here> -C /

3. ./bootstrap

4. Create a configuration file named configure-vlc-windows.sh

5. Put the following in configure-vlc-windows.sh:

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export CONTRIBS=/usr/win32 
export PREFIX=/work/vlc/compiled/windows-x86-latest/

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$CONTRIBS/lib/pkgconfig
export CPPFLAGS="-I$CONTRIBS/include -I$CONTRIBS/include/ebml" 
export LDFLAGS=-L$CONTRIBS/lib

./configure \
    --host=i586-mingw32msvc \
    --prefix=$PREFIX \
    --build=i386-linux \
    --enable-mkv \
    --enable-release \
    --without-contrib \
    --enable-nls \
    --enable-shared-libvlc \
    --enable-lua \
    --enable-faad \
    --enable-flac \
    --enable-theora \
    --enable-twolame \
    --enable-quicktime \
    --enable-real \
    --enable-realrtsp \
    --enable-ffmpeg \
    --with-ffmpeg-mp3lame \
    --with-ffmpeg-faac \
    --with-ffmpeg-config-path=/usr/win32/bin \
    --with-ffmpeg-zlib \
    --enable-live555 \
    --with-live555-tree=/usr/win32/live.com \
    --disable-libgcrypt \
    --disable-remoteosd \
    --disable-cddax \
    --disable-vcdx \
    --disable-goom \
    --disable-dvdread \
    --disable-dvdnav \
    --disable-sdl \
    --disable-bonjour \

6. chmod u+x configure-vlc-windows.sh

7. ./configure-vlc-windows.sh

8. ./compile

9. make package-win32-base

Thanks for any help you can provide!

Posted: **25 Oct 2008 05:02**

what msvcrt.dll version do you have?

Posted: **28 Oct 2008 00:09**

It works fine on the latest build I download from the nightlies, but not when I compile and run it myself. It's version 7.0.2600.5512.

Posted: **28 Oct 2008 18:03**

It's fairly impossible to debug without debug infos (and yes, it's difficult to get these on Windows).

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