are not as much tested so expect more difficulties with them).
- natively on Windows, using MSYS+MINGW (www.mingw.org)
- (MSYS is a minimal build environnement to compile Unixish projects under
+ (MSYS is a minimal build environment to compile Unixish projects under
windoze. It provides all the common Unix tools like sh, gmake...)
Please note that the gettext utilities are not included in the default
MSYS/MINGW packages so you won't be able to build VLC with i18n support.
( If you are using our gcc-3.3.1 cross-compiler you'll need to use:
PATH=/usr/local/mingw/bin:$PATH make )
+Once the compilation is done, you can either run VLC directly from the source
+tree or 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.
+
+ make package-win32
+ Same as above but will also create an auto-installer package. You will need
+ to have NSIS installed in its default location for this to work.
+
Well done, now you're ready to use VLC!
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