Building VLC 3.0.6 for Windows on OpenSUSE Leap 15

[aitte]

Is this the appropriate forum to ask for help building VLC for Windows, on Linux, using the [url=http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32Compile]official guide[/url]?

I'm using OpenSUSE Leap 15.0 and the packages are named differently than in the guide. I've gotten quite a ways but I've hit an error:

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make: x86_64-w64-mingw32-widl: Command not found

Indeed that command isn't in any package I installed. I believe it should be in the mingw-w64-tools package, but there's no package like that, or even named the same as the core packages. The repo I'm using for mingw is [url=http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/windows:/mingw:/win64/openSUSE_Leap_15.0/]here[/url].

I'm trying to build it so I can solve a crash on windows since a year has gone by since I reported it with no one looking at it.

(The [URL] syntax isn't working for me despite me following the example shown when I hover over the URL button. Sigh.)

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

It's part of WINE, not MingW.

[aitte]

It didn't seem to get installed with wine, and I installed every package I saw.

In the end I just gave up and installed Ubuntu in a virtual machine. Getting the build instructions working on Ubuntu was still a struggle as there are several issues not mentioned in the guide that have to be overcome.