OK, I did everything from the Wiki link http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32Compile but when I configure, I get the error that Lua was not found. If I check with apt-get, the newest version Lua5.1 is already installed. Any clue what's going wrong?
Ok, I'm sometimes a little bit stupid. I had this problem with Lua because I downloaded and used the wrong contrib files (win32 vs. x64). I've now used the x86_64-w64-mingw32 files and compiling VLC worked like a charam. Thank you very much for this great product and the continuous help solving such stupid problems like mine