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I want to compile the source code for vlc in windows .... I am following this link http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32CompileMSYS

my problems might seems silly... but it would be of great help if someone could help me out... i m a newbie..

I finished the first step - Install MinGW

I have a problem doing the 2nd part - Notes from December 2009

Currently the MinGW installer adds mingwrt-3.17 which is not compatible with the precompiled contribs mentioned below. You should manually download and install 3.15 found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/f ... z/download

where does the MinGW add mingwrt-3.17 (i mean in which folder?) ...
I downloaded the file from the link ... how can i manually install it (what do they mean by that?) ... (does it mean to overwrite the files that were installed in c:/MinGW/ with the files i just downloaded?)

and what does this mean?

The precompiled contribs also require gcc 4.2.1 found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/f ... z/download http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/f ... z/download

After downloading and unpacking those two files you can switch MinGW to use the new version with

mv /mingw/bin/c++.exe /mingw/bin/c++.345.exe
mv /mingw/bin/g++.exe /mingw/bin/g++.345.exe
mv /mingw/bin/gcc.exe /mingw/bin/gcc.345.exe
mv /mingw/bin/g++-sjlj.exe /mingw/bin/g++.exe
mv /mingw/bin/c++-sjlj.exe /mingw/bin/c++.exe
mv /mingw/bin/gcc-sjlj.exe /mingw/bin/gcc.exe


i cant find any folder by name mingw .. i have only c:/MinGW ...

thank you for the help///

Why do you want to compile VLC?

The wiki pages notes, under the "Notes from January 2010" section:

Now You can build VLC using GCC 4.4.2 and mingw runtime 3.17 using minor patches

I think this may solve the mingwrt-3.17 problem, but...

I can only see GCC v4.4.0 on http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/...
If I want 4.4.2 do I have to build it myself? (I hope not)
Or is 4.4.0 OK to use?

Thanks.

I'd like to be able to build this myself so that I can try to fix some of the small issues that annoy me... but I'm a little bit out of touch with the latest and greatest open source development tools

4.4.0 is ok.

But did you build your own gcc 4.4.2 for windows?