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I am new to VLC. I am trying to compile the VLC under win2K. According to document Win32 Cygwin Environment, I download necessary source, but when I run the script of compile, I was told that "you need automake version 1.5 or later, Make: not found", but I have chosen them when I install Cygwin. Is there anyone give me idea how to solve this problem. Thank for your help. ( By the way, when I installed Cygwin, I did not find
the component "make", is this the problem? how to solve?)

You need to install exactly what's shown in the Appendix to the document. I just did a refresh -- best I can tell VLC does not like the latest automake 1.9.2, though I'm not positive.

Also, I have a complete zipped set of the Cygwin packages that I currently use, available on my FTP. You unzip the packages to a temp directory, then run the Cygwin Setup program (within the zipped set), tell it to install from local disk, point it at the directory, tell it to install all. It's 80MB, but includes a full system.

Please only post once -- there's a handful of "regulars" who answer a lot of the questions, and check all the forums -- it gets boring to see the same thing twice. Just post once, in the forum you think is proper. If a moderator sees it, believes it really belongs elsewhere, it will be moved. Thanks.

Thanks markfm.

I have download cygwin and compile again. But new problems occurred:

......../bootstrap: Cannot for: Permission denied
Make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

Is this problem related to cygwin installation? I compared all components with your documents.

Sounds like your Cygwin installation is hosed (bad).

I would recommend fully deleting your Cygwin installation, reinstalling. It's possibly something that can be fixed, but I've found that for myself it's easier to just reinstall if the original isntallation hasn't gone right.

You can download my zipped 80MB Cygwin at:

ftp://markfm.dynalias.org
Connect to port 21, use cygwin as both the username and password. It only has the one, big, zipped Cygwin package -- expand it, run setup, as per my earlier post.

Good luck! (it's not bad once you get the initial environment installed)

I use filezilla from sourceforge for general FTP -- works fine.

Also, you should be able to connect OK from Windows' built-in ftp.
-Open a command prompt, and enter:
ftp markfm.dynalias.org
This opens an ftp> prompt. Enter:
type binary
and then, again at the ftp prompt:
get CygwinEnvironment.zip
It'll take time -- it really is 80MB
When it's done you'll get an ftp prompt again, just type:
bye

Thank you, Markfm

I have download cygwin from your ftp and compiled. However, another problem as following occurred:

"......../bootstrap: cannot fork: persmission denied
../config_setup: Make persmission denied"

I have tried many times, deleting cygwin and re-installed, this problem
still existed. Moreover, every time after the failure of compile, there
is a run-time warning and then my computer stopped. It is so frustrating,
Please give me some idea.

Thank you very much.

To Markfm,

By the way, I used both contrib-20041208-win32-bin-gcc3.3.1-only.tar
and contrib-20040520-win32-bin-gcc3.3.1-only.tar version!
I used svn download the sourcecode of vlc

Thank for your reply.