Windows Build - Fails to configure and distclean

[deanwarrenuk]

Firstly using Ubuntu 14.04.05 Desktop 64bit and managed to get https://wiki.videolan.org/UnixCompile/ to successfully build VLC 2.2.4 and execute.

Using the same environment as above and trying to follow https://wiki.videolan.org/Win32Compile/. Note it states 'Ubuntu 14.04' is to old to build VLC - I assume this is with regards to the latest VLC e.g. 3.0.0 (it's not clear what version it's to old for?). Also using the 'prebuilt' third party libs as per instructions.

However ran into the following issues:

1)
The following instruction

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apt-get install wine64-development-tools libwine-dev zip p7zip nsis bzip2

fails as the wine packages not in the repo. Is there a ppa I need to add? Instead I used wine1.6-dev - is this correct?

2)
The following instruction

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../extras/package/win32/configure.sh --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

fails stating

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configure: error: source directory already configured; run "make distclean" there first

So I go back a directory, execute make distclean. This also fails with

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configure: error: Could not find lua. Lua is needed for some interfaces (rc, telnet, http) as well as many other custom scripts. Use --disable-lua to ignore this error.

Go back to directory and execute the following again

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../extras/package/win32/configure.sh --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

Same error as previously. Any ideas?

[deanwarrenuk]

OK.

So running the command (as per instructions down the page )

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sudo apt-get install lua5.1

Fixes 2). And this in turn fixed 1).

So now I get this

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configure: error: Library dvdread > 4.9.0 needed for dvdread was not found

But dvdread should have been resolved with the following as run when building the original Linux version right?

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sudo apt-get build-dep vlc

If I browse in

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contrib/src/dvdread/rules.mak

I see version 5.0.3. Is this the right place to look for win32 prebuilt contribs (don't think so) - I think this is the Linux ones to be built, right?

If I browse in

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contrib/win32

There is a archive file called

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vlc-contrib-x86_64-w64-minw32-latest.tar.bz2 I assume this is the prebuilt win32 contribs - is it? Anyhow there is a libdvdread but how to tell what version is it? I mean I can't use readelf -d <lib? as this is a Windows bin/lib not an elf, right?