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I installed cygwin with all packages described in the pdf produced by markfm and tried to compile vlc.

it ended with a link error on skins2 module :
in /usr/lib/libstdc++.a, there are undefined reference symbols. all are "_pthread*".
is there a lib missing for linkage ? which one could resolve posix threads symbols ?

bobi

You can check your GCC version and chich version GCC your cygwin contribute library was build. If they are not same, it'll come out this error!
When I used the
http://download.videolan.org/pub/testin ... ly.tar.bz2
contribute lib, and my gcc in the cygwin is 3.2.0, I got the similiar error.
After I upgrade the GCC to 3.3.1, all become calm :O)

There's a newer contrib, 20041208. Haven't done a build with it yet, myself, but it's usually good to DL the latest available.

As usual, recommend deleting the existing usr/win32 directory before uncompressing the new one -- it gets rid of some oddball warnings/errors due to old files mixing with new.