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I Download the VLC sourcecode (version: vlc-snapshot-20040109)
And I Compiled it in MS-Windows 2000 Server, MS-Visual C++6.0.(the project in the msvc subdirectroy).the compile process worked well,and I get a vlc.exe in debug version about 600KB.
But when I run it in my computer, I can Only see a DOS window, and can't open MPEG files.
I also download the binary library of vlc-0.7.0, the vlc.exe run and show a window, and can open MPEG files.
What's wrong with me? can you do me a favor?

thanks!

I had a similar problem but in a Red Hat environment:
With the vlc 0.7.0 source files:
-compilation was OK
-wxWindows interface was not available
-in the messages, i could read a shared library could not be opened
Whereas with the binary the wxWindows was available

Solution was to compile the wxWindows source files.
See the topis "Problem to build VLC with wxWindows interface under RedHat" for more details.

Emmanuel DUFOUR

The MSVC project files are mainly here for potential hackers but cannot currently be used (as is, at least) to make a full-featured version of VLC.
The problem is that VLC depends on quite a few 3rd party libraries like wxWindows for the GUI or libmpeg2 for the mpeg video decoding, etc...
So you'll have to hack to compile these 3rd party libraries yourself and hack the VLC project files to use them.... which is not an easy task.

To easily compile VLC on windows, you can use the cygwin environment. Have a look at the INSTALL.win32 file shipped with the VLC sources for more info.