How to compile the plugin_wxwindows.dsp in win2000?

[tjuwangli]

I can't compile the plugin_wxwindows.dll in win2000. How can I compile it and I don't realize about the wxwindows. I have already downloaded the wxwindows from the web, but I don't know how to use it. Please help me!

[markfm]

I work from snapshots of VLC, the daily ones. They include the wxwindows plugin code. If you work from a daily snapshot, follow the install_win32.txt file, the whole things should build cleanly, with the wxwindows plugin.

Note, I first tried working using the Msys environment with mingw compiler -- never got it to compile right. Gibalou suggested Cygwin -- I downloaded the Cygwin environment, selected all of the mingw-oriented compiler/library options (but NOT the Cygwin C++ compiler stuff), and things have compiled cleanly since.

Note, if you try to work with the daily snapshots, you need to edit the file share\vlc_win32_rc.rc; delete lines 15 and 16 in that file -- the daily snapshots do not have a proper version number, and the make will generate a "parser" error late in the process, when it is processing the .rc file.