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Hi,

I would like to compile the VLC library for Windows.
I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 64 bits under Virtualbox.
I've installed every library depend so that configure will finish with success: While running make I encounter the following issue: Did install all 'idna' available libraries from Ubuntu repository: even though, should have been sufficient.
Header is available: Also tried to modify CFLAGS, IDN_CFLAGS or naively add --idn-include (with /usr/include path) when configuring. None of these solved the issue.

Kindly requesting for help. If you need any other information please ask!

Install 'mingw-w64-tools' and restart from scratch.

Did follow tutorial from : https://wiki.videolan.org/Win32Compile/ . 'mingw-w64-tools' was installed with first batch of installs. Did start again scratch, but same error.

yep, same issue here. only for me, the '../extras/package/win32/configure.sh --host=i686-w64-mingw32' did not work, but '../configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32' completed.
i'm on 32 bit mythbuntu.
Built for Linux fine, now testing build for windows.

../../src/text/url.c: At top level:
../../src/text/url.c:502:19: fatal error: idna.h: No such file or directory
# include <idna.h>
^
simon

did this:

cp /usr/include/idna.h vlc/contrib/i686-w64-mingw32/include/
cp /usr/include/idn_int.h vlc/contrib/i686-w64-mingw32/include/

now it compiles, but stops at link:

i686-w64-mingw32-windres --include-dir ../../share --include-dir ../../extras/package/win32 -i libvlc_win32_rc.rc -o libvlc_win32_rc.o
CCLD libvlccore.la
/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-ld: cannot find -lidn
/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-ld: cannot find -ldbus-1
/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-ld: cannot find -lrt
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status


I'm guessing that something is wrong with the pre-compiled win32 contribs at the moment, maybe?

Simon

I did copy headers there too, before I tried :

Also tried to modify CFLAGS, IDN_CFLAGS or naively add --idn-include (with /usr/include path) when configuring. None of these solved the issue.

and had some similar issues to:
/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-ld: cannot find -lidn
/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-ld: cannot find -ldbus-1
/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-ld: cannot find -lrt

Try again after you copy libidn.so, libdbus-1.so and librt.so from (if you have have them) in .

I did copy headers there too, before I tried :

Also tried to modify CFLAGS, IDN_CFLAGS or naively add --idn-include (with /usr/include path) when configuring. None of these solved the issue.

and had some similar issues to:
/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-ld: cannot find -lidn
/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-ld: cannot find -ldbus-1
/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-ld: cannot find -lrt

Try again after you copy libidn.so, libdbus-1.so and librt.so (if you have have them) from in

won't those be compiled for linux, not for win32?
I tried to build the contribs, and had a variety of issues.
the first was that nettle just would not download via ftp (fine in a browser in ftp and http, but not automated via curl). I fixed this by changing the reference to the http location.
The second was that Freetype did not build.
Then on a third try, it failed in a different way; failing to find Freetype2.


I seem to remember contribs being the biggest issue last time I built VLC for win32.

I gave up trying to compile VLC Library in Ubuntu. Using Debian Sid (unstable) did not encounter any problems presented above.
However, these errors look like some functions' implementation are missing: Any suggestion?