From f0f9acb1def56a589910e22eb082247211a5916a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jean-Baptiste Kempf Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:18:20 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Remove outdated WinCE howto You know, there is a wiki that is actually useful --- INSTALL.wince | 103 -------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 103 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 INSTALL.wince diff --git a/INSTALL.wince b/INSTALL.wince deleted file mode 100644 index 30ebb528bb..0000000000 --- a/INSTALL.wince +++ /dev/null @@ -1,103 +0,0 @@ -INSTALL file for the WinCE version of the VLC media player - - -Building VLC from the source code -================================= - -If you want to build VLC from sources, you can do it in several ways: - -- On GNU/Linux, using the wince gcc cross-compiler. - (Right now we only provide an ARM version of the cross-compiler) - -- Natively on Windows, using Microsoft Embedded Visual C++. - Even though we provide some evc project files with vlc, this method is - advised only if you just want to experiment/play with some basic - functionality in vlc. The reason for this is that vlc depends on a lot of - 3rd party libraries and building them in EVC is not convenient and - sometimes even impossible. - -Getting the right compiler tools -================================ - -You will need to download our wince gcc cross-compiler package: -http://www.videolan.org/pub/testing/wince/wince-arm-gcc4.0.0-cvs-linux-crosscompiler-20050517.tar.bz2. -Extract this package in your root directory (everything will be extracted in -/usr/local/wince/cross-tools). - -The source code for this cross-compiler in also available at the same location. - -Getting the additional libraries -================================= - -VLC depends on other libraries to provide some features like ac3 audio decoding -or mpeg4 video decoding, etc... - -Depending on your needs you will have to compile/install some or all of these -external libraries. - -They can be found here (source code): -http://download.videolan.org/pub/testing/contrib/ - -We also provide a package with all the libraries already compiled so it is -actually really easy to compile a full-featured version of vlc: -http://download.videolan.org/pub/testing/wince/contrib-20050220-wince-xscale-bin.tar.bz2 (Check out fo more recent versions at the same location). - -All you need to do is extract it in your root directory (the include files -and libraries will be put in /usr/local/wince/contrib-xscale). -You can do this with the following command: - - tar xjvf contrib-20050220-wince-xscale-bin.tar.bz2 -C / - -Please note the "-C /". - -A complete list of the libraries on which we depend can be found here: -http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/ - -Configuring the build -===================== - -Once you've got all the files you need in place, you need to configure the -build with the `./configure' script. - -I'll assume that you are using the pre-compiled 3rd party libraries I'm -providing and that they are in /usr/local/wince/contrib-xscale. - -Use something along those lines: - -./bootstrap && -PATH=/usr/local/wince/cross-tools/bin:$PATH \ -CFLAGS="-D__stdcall= -D_OFF_T_ -I/usr/local/wince/cross-tools/include" \ -CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I/usr/local/wince/contrib-xscale/include" \ -LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/wince/cross-tools/lib" \ -LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L/usr/local/wince/contrib-xscale/lib" \ -CC="arm-wince-pe-gcc -mcpu=xscale" \ - ../configure --host=arm-wince-pe --target=arm-wince-pe \ - --build=i686-linux --prefix=/usr/local/wince \ - --disable-sdl --disable-gtk --disable-dvdnav --disable-dvdread \ - --disable-nls --disable-sout --disable-vlm --disable-a52 \ - --disable-libmpeg2 --disable-freetype --disable-fribidi \ - --disable-mad --disable-plugins --enable-optimize-memory \ - --with-freetype-config-path=/usr/local/wince-xscale/bin \ - --with-fribidi-config-path=/usr/local/wince-xscale/bin \ - --enable-tremor --enable-faad - -See `./configure --help' for more information. - -Actually Compiling the VLC source -================================= - -Once configured, to build VLC, just run: - PATH=/usr/local/wince/cross-tools/bin:$PATH make - -Once the compilation is done, you can build self-contained VLC packages with -the following 'make' rules: - - make package-win32-base - will create a subdirectory named vlc-x.x.x with all the binaries - 'stripped' (ie. without any debugging symbols). - - make package-win32-zip - Same as above but will package the directory in a zip file. - -Well done, now you're ready to use VLC! -======================================= -- 2.39.2