If you want to play a DVD, run vlc and click on the Disc option in the
interface. You then have to type your drive letter in the 'Device name'
box (eg. 'D:' if your dvdrom drive is assigned the letter 'D').
-(Warning: you have to be in administrator mode (for now) on Win2k)
+( !Warning: you have to be in administrator mode (for now) on Win2k )
Building VideoLAN from source code
- natively on Windows
- or on Linux, using cross-compiling
-All these tools can be found on the libSDL web page:
+All the necessary tools can be found on the libSDL web page:
http://www.libsdl.org/Xmingw32/
-Configuring VideoLAN
-====================
+- cross-compiling with mingw32:
+You need to download the linux cross-compiler version of mingw32.
+(for Debian GNU/Linux users, there is a mingw32 package)
+You must also not forget to install some extra header files and libraries if
+you want to build some plugins like DirectX, GTK or SDL.
-A typical way to configure vlc is:
+- compiling natively on Windoze:
+[coming soon (investigating a combination of cygwin+mingw32)]
- ./configure --disable-x11 --disable-xvideo --disable-dsp --without-sdl \
- --with-directx=/usr/local/cross-compile/i386-mingw32msvc
+Configuring the build
+=====================
+
+A typical way to configure the build process of vlc is to use the
+`./configure' script.
See `./configure --help' for more information.
-To cross-compile for the Win32 platform using mingw32:
+For example if you are cross-compiling from Debian, you can use something
+along those lines:
+
+ make distclean ; CC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc \
+ ./configure --host=i586-mingw32msvc --target=i586-mingw32msvc \
+ --build=i386-linux --with-gtk-config-path=/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/bin \
+ --with-sdl-config-path=/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/bin
+
+./configure uses the 'gtk-config' and 'sdl-config' scripts and unfortunately,
+when cross-compiling you have to tell ./configure where to find them.
+You have two choices for this, you can either add the path to these files at
+the beginning of your PATH variable. Or you can use the
+'--with-gtk/sdl-config-path' option.
+(by the way, you may have to create a gtk-config script yourself or modify
+the one from your linux distro)
- make distclean ; CC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc CFLAGS=-I/usr/i586-mingw32msvc \
- RANLIB=i586-mingw32msvc-ranlib WINDRES=i586-mingw32msvc-windres \
- ./configure --host=i386-mingw32msvc \
- --target=i386-mingw32msvc --build=i386-linux --disable-dsp \
- --disable-x11 --disable-xvideo
+If you are cross-compiling using the package provided by
+http://www.libsdl.org/Xmingw32/, you can use something along those lines:
+ make distclean ; PATH=/usr/local/cross-tools/bin:/usr/local/cross-tools/i386-mingw32msvc/bin:$PATH \
+ ./configure --host=i386-mingw32msvc \
+ --target=i386-mingw32msvc --build=i386-linux
Building VideoLAN
=================
Once configured, run `make' to build vlc.
+If you are using the tools from http://www.libsdl.org/Xmingw32/ you can type something like:
+
+ PATH=/usr/local/cross-tools/bin:/usr/local/cross-tools/i386-mingw32msvc/bin:$PATH \
+ make
+
+Building Win32 interface with bcc32 (Borland's compiler)
+========================================================
+
+[Steps 2 and 3 are temporary]
+1) Compile vlc as usual.
+include\defs.h should be generated.
+2) Edit include\defs.h, and add the following lines if necessary:
+#define WIN32
+#define MODULE_NAME win32
+#define MODULE_NAME_IS win32
+#define PLUGIN
+#define HAVE_DYNAMIC_PLUGINS
+3) Still in defs.h, comment the following line to avoid compilation warnings:
+#define PACKAGE "vlc"
+4) From the plugin\win32 directory, use Borland C++ command-line tools
+as follows:
+bpr2mak intfwin.bpr // Create a makefile from intfwin.bpr
+make -fintfwin // It's Borland's make utility !
+5) This should create a intfwin.so
+You can remove any other generated file.
+Well done, now you're ready to use vlc!
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