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+ 2002/03/05
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+ VLC for Windows Cross-Compile HOWTO - 0.1
+
+*EASY* VLC cross-compilation using Linux for a Windows client
+
+Bill Eldridge & Gildas Bazin
+
+0) MSYS & mingw
+1) Download software packages
+2) Unpack sources
+3) Configure vlc
+4) Make
+5) Package for Windows
+6) Further resources
+
+0) MSYS & mingw
+
+As of version 1.0.5, the MSYS part of MingW has
+released an environment that will let you configure
+and compile packages for mingw directly on Windows.
+
+ http://mingw.sourceforge.net
+
+Combined with the SDL & GTK development packages,
+this is enough to compile vlc without cross-compiling
+on Linux. However, for those of us who like Linux
+and want to cross-compile (say to automate nightly
+builds), read on.
+
+1) Download software packages
+
+Download all the software needed to /usr/local/src/VLC -
+including pre-compiled mingw32 cross-compiler for linux,
+SDL, gtk, directx, and of course vlc. You will also need
+various run-time DLLs on your Windows machine when you go
+to run the program.
+
+Go to http://www.videolan.org/vlc/windows.html and download:
+- mingw32 cross-compiler for linux: linux-cross-mingw32-10022002.tar.bz2
+- SDL-devel-1.2.3-mingw32.tar.gz (you can also go to www.libsdl.org)
+- gtk-win32-10022002.tar.bz2 development files.
+- the directx 7 headers. (Instead of downloading the whole directx SDK
+form Microsoft)
+
+Get vlc from:
+
+ http://www.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/snapshots/
+
+(who needs a release version? you're compiling, after all :)
+or grab the cvs at:
+
+ http://www.videolan.org/cvs.html
+
+using the command:
+
+cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.videolan.org:/var/cvs/videolan -z3 co
+vlc
+
+(and no, you don't need to log in, that's why it's "anonymous")
+
+2) Unpack sources
+
+Unpack all your sources to the right place:
+
+[Note that you can put SDL & gtk in a different place,
+but then you'll have to edit the sdl-config & gtk-config.
+directx can go anywhere - you'll just set that path when
+you do vlc's configure]
+
+cd to your Source directory
+
+SRCDIR=`pwd` # /usr/local/src/VLC seems good, no?
+
+tar -jxvf linux-cross-mingw32-10022002.tar.bz2 -C /usr/local
+
+tar -zxf SDL-devel-1.2.3-mingw32.tar.gz -C /usr/local/cross-tools
+cd /usr/local/cross-tools
+ln -s i586-mingw32msvc i386-mingw32msvc
+tar -xf SDL-1.2.3/i386-mingw32msvc.tgz
+rm -rf SDL-1.2.3
+
+cd $SRCDIR
+tar xjvf gtk-win32-10022002.tar.bz2 -C /usr/local
+
+mkdir /usr/local/directx
+unzip -d /usr/local/directx/include dxheaders.zip
+
+tar -jxf <vlc-snapshot-xxx>.bz2 # Unless you used cvs
+cd vlc
+
+3) Configure vlc
+
+rm config.cache config.status
+make clean # or "make distclean" for pretty pretty
+
+PATH=/usr/local/cross-tools/bin:$PATH \
+CC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc \
+./configure --host=i586-mingw32msvc \
+ --target=i586-mingw32msvc --build=i386-linux \
+ --with-directx=/usr/local/directx \
+ --with-gtk-config-path=/usr/local/gtk-win32/bin \
+ --with-sdl-config-path=/usr/local/cross-tools/i586-mingw32msvc/bin
+
+4) make vlc
+
+PATH=/usr/local/cross-tools/bin:$PATH \
+make
+
+5) Package for Windows
+
+mkdir /usr/local/src/winvlc
+mkdir /usr/local/src/winvlc/plugins
+mkdir /usr/local/src/winvlc/share
+cp vlc.exe /usr/local/src/winvlc/
+cp plugins/*.so /usr/local/src/winvlc/plugins/
+cp share/*.psf /usr/local/src/winvlc/share/
+cd /usr/local/src
+strip winvlc/vlc.exe winvlc/plugins/*.so
+zip -r winvlc.zip winvlc
+
+Now place winvlc in your ftp/html downloads,
+or copy to your dos disk or move to a floppy
+(only about 270K)
+
+Uncompress to C:\winvlc
+
+Don't forget to place all the GTK and SDL dll's from the development packages
+you downloaded on http://www.videolan.org/vlc/windows.html in c:\winvlc
+
+cd c:\winvlc
+vlc -v
+
+Note: -v gives you errors in case something's not being found,
+otherwise not needed.
+
+
+6) Further resources (for this or other cross-compilation
+projects):
+
+At this time, mingw32_2.95.3.7-3_i386.deb and
+mingw32-runtime_1.2-1_i386.deb were at:
+
+http://packages.debian.org/testing/devel/mingw32.html
+http://packages.debian.org/testing/devel/mingw32-runtime.html
+
+and possibly on your CD - you might be able to find later
+versions, or save bandwidth, if you care. (Of course we'll
+only be testing what we put on the VideoLan website).
+While these are "Debian" packages, they work on Redhat
+and possibly elsewhere - download dpkg for your system
+and do something like:
+
+dpkg -x mingw32_2.95.3.7-3_i386.deb /tmp/ming
+dpkg -x mingw32-runtime_1.2-1_i386.deb /tmp/ming
+mv /tmp/ming/usr /usr/local/cross-tools
+
+
+Full DX-7 headers, libs & directx.h (the Peter Puck version)
+can be found at:
+
+ http://fceultra.sourceforge.net/dev
+
+There are other versions of GTK for Windows available, but
+the one provided here has been hacked specifically for VideoLan.
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