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Building VLC on windows

Posted: 22 Mar 2014 15:49
by SoulMan
Hello,

I am following this guide: https://wiki.videolan.org/Win32CompileCygwinNew/
to compile vlc using cygwin.

I get error in the configure step, when I run this command: ./configure-vlc.sh
How can I solve this?

Thanks!

This is the error i get:

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$ ./configure-vlc.sh configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-sdl-config-path, --with-live555-tree, --with-caca-config-path, --with-dvdnav- config-path, --disable-dirac checking build system type... i686-pc-cygwin checking host system type... i686-pc-mingw32 checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for i686-pc-mingw32-strip... i686-pc-mingw32-strip checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether make supports nested variables... yes checking whether UID '1001' is supported by ustar format... yes checking whether GID '513' is supported by ustar format... yes checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... yes checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for i686-pc-mingw32-gcc... gcc -mno-cygwin checking whether the C compiler works... no configure: error: in `/cygdrive/c/VideoLan/vlc': configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details


This is what I found in the config.log

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gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-mno-cygwin' configure:5524: $? = 0 configure:5513: gcc -mno-cygwin -v >&5 Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=gcc COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.8.2/lto-wrapper.exe gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-mno-cygwin' Target: i686-pc-cygwin Configured with: /cygdrive/i/szsz/tmpp/gcc4/gcc-4.8.2-2/src/gcc-4.8.2/configure --srcdir=/cygdrive/i/szsz/tmpp/gcc4/gcc-4.8.2-2/src/gcc-4.8.2 --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bin dir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --datadir=/usr/share --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc --libdir=/usr/lib --datarootdir=/usr/share --docdir=/usr/shar e/doc/gcc --htmldir=/usr/share/doc/gcc/html -C --build=i686-pc-cygwin --host=i686-pc-cygwin --target=i686-pc-cygwin --without-libiconv-prefix --without-libintl-prefix --enable-shar ed --enable-shared-libgcc --enable-static --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --enable-bootstrap --disable-__cxa_atexit --with-dwarf2 --with-arch=i686 --with-tune=generic --disa ble-sjlj-exceptions --enable-languages=ada,c,c++,fortran,java,lto,objc,obj-c++ --enable-graphite --enable-threads=posix --enable-libatomic --enable-libgomp --disable-libitm --enabl e-libquadmath --enable-libquadmath-support --enable-libssp --enable-libada --enable-libjava --enable-libgcj-sublibs --disable-java-awt --disable-symvers --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/j ava/ecj.jar --with-gnu-ld --with-gnu-as --with-cloog-include=/usr/include/cloog-isl --without-libiconv-prefix --without-libintl-prefix --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib Thread model: posix gcc version 4.8.2 (GCC) configure:5524: $? = 0 configure:5513: gcc -mno-cygwin -V >&5 gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-mno-cygwin' gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-V' gcc: fatal error: no input files compilation terminated. configure:5524: $? = 1 configure:5513: gcc -mno-cygwin -qversion >&5 gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-mno-cygwin' gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-qversion' gcc: fatal error: no input files compilation terminated. configure:5524: $? = 1 configure:5544: checking whether the C compiler works configure:5566: gcc -mno-cygwin -I/usr/win32/include -I/usr/win32/include/ebml -L/usr/win32/lib conftest.c >&5 gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-mno-cygwin' configure:5570: $? = 1 configure:5608: result: no configure: failed program was: | /* confdefs.h */ | #define PACKAGE_NAME "vlc" | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "vlc" | #define PACKAGE_VERSION "2.2.0-git" | #define PACKAGE_STRING "vlc 2.2.0-git" | #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "" | #define PACKAGE_URL "" | #define PACKAGE "vlc" | #define VERSION "2.2.0-git" | /* end confdefs.h. */ | | int | main () | { | | ; | return 0; | } configure:5613: error: in `/cygdrive/c/VideoLan/vlc': configure:5615: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details

Re: Building VLC on windows

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 14:47
by Jean-Baptiste Kempf
As explained on the doc, do NOT use cygwin. This is unmaintained.