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Posted: **03 Nov 2009 17:00**

I'm trying to build the Win32 version of VLC using the "Native-compile with MSYS+MINGW" method described here: http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32CompileMSYSNew. I'm running on Windows XP Pro, SP3. I used git to retrieve the latest source tree. When I run make, I get the following error:

$ PATH=/usr/win32/bin:$PATH make
make --quiet all-recursive
Making all in po
Making all in compat
Making all in src
/bin/sh: git: command not found
Making all in .
CCLD libvlccore.la
../libtool: eval: line 8625: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
../libtool: eval: line 8626: syntax error: unexpected end of file
make[4]: *** [libvlccore.la] Error 1
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

Any ideas what I might have done wrong?

Thanks.

--Mike

Posted: **03 Nov 2009 19:34**

/bin/sh: git: command not found

Hmm, did you install tortoisegit and rebooted?

Posted: **13 Nov 2009 18:13**

Hi MikeRuf,
VLC doesn't actually build according to the steps from the wikipage as libtool isn't created correctly.

What I have to do to get things moving is to modify libtool after the configure stage, replacing the line (~155) 'global_symbol_pipe=""' with:
global_symbol_pipe="sed -n -e 's/^.*[ ]\$[ABCDGIRSTW][ABCDGIRSTW]*\$[ ][ ]*\$\$\$[_A-Za-z][_A-Za-z0-9]*\$\$/\\1\\2\\3 \\3/p'"

Hope that helps.

Posted: **25 Nov 2009 15:13**

I had same problem, but MichaelMC's advice works for me.
Thanks Michael.

Posted: **01 Sep 2012 04:30**

Hi MikeRuf,
VLC doesn't actually build according to the steps from the wikipage as libtool isn't created correctly.

What I have to do to get things moving is to modify libtool after the configure stage, replacing the line (~155) 'global_symbol_pipe=""' with:
global_symbol_pipe="sed -n -e 's/^.*[ ]\$[ABCDGIRSTW][ABCDGIRSTW]*\$[ ][ ]*\$\$\$[_A-Za-z][_A-Za-z0-9]*\$\$/\\1\\2\\3 \\3/p'"

Hope that helps.

Thanks michael,
I also got this ploblem,when i am compiling VLC1.1.12.And it helps me through the compiling,but i got a new problem when i want to install:
when i hit"make package-win32-base":
c:\MinGW\bin\objcopy.exe:./vlc-1.1.12/plugins/libaccess_avio_plugin.dll: Permiss
ion denied
c:\MinGW\bin\objcopy.exe: unable to rename './vlc-1.1.12/plugins/libaccess_ftp_p
lugin.dll'; reason: File exists
Does this have some link to the modify of libtool ?

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