-All the necessary tools you need can be found on the videolan web site:
-http://www.videolan.org/vlc/windows.html
+You first need to download a GNU/Linux cross-compiler version of mingw32.
+
+For Debian GNU/Linux users, you can use the mingw32, mingw32-binutils and
+mingw32-runtime packages.
+For Fedora users, you can use mingw-binutils, mingw-gcc-core, mingw-gcc-g++
+
+For MingW and Cygwin, please refer to our Wiki:
+- http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32CompileMSYS
+- http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32CompileCygwin