Compiling VLC using MINGW

[ramprasad85]

Hi
I am trying to build VLC for windows from Fedora 9.
the page at http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32Compile says

If you want to save yourself time and energy by using the pre-built versions of these libraries, you may download them from ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/vlc/ version /win32/ contrib-yyyymmdd-win32-version-bin-gcc-gccversion-only.tar.bz2 . The pre-built versions will only work with MINGW or Cygwin. Note that the version you download must match that of the MINGW compiler, i586-mingw32msvc-gcc, which you can verify by typing 'i586-mingw32msvc-gcc --ver'.

but i am not able to find any contrib in ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/vlc/0.9.6/win32/

I have exacted the file at ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/testing/win32/mingw-gcc3.3.1-linux-crosscompiler.tar.bz2
Thats all i have done regarding MINGW.
I am able to generate working .exe files using i586-mingw32msvc-gcc
Please tell me if my MINGW installation is complete.

[ramprasad@localhost ~]$ i586-mingw32msvc-gcc --version
i586-mingw32msvc-gcc (GCC) 3.3.1 (mingw special 20030804-1)

The same page (ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/testing/win32/) has many contribs, but none of them match my compiler version!
Please tell me if i am on the right track to compile VLC for windows from Fedora

Thank you

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

http://people.videolan.org/~jb/Contribs ... ly.tar.bz2