disable the GUI. You will end-up with a vlc.log file in your current directory.
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 this is the letter for your dvdrom drive).
-( !WARNING: you have to be in administrator mode (for now) on Win2k/XP or the
- DVD won't play. )
+interface. You then have to type your drive letter followed by a colon in
+the 'Device name' box (eg. 'D:' if this is the letter for your dvdrom drive).
Building VideoLAN Client from the source code
=============================================
If you want to do the tricky job of building vlc from sources, you can do it
-in two ways:
+in several ways:
- natively on Windows, using MSYS+MINGW (www.mingw.org)
(MSYS is a minimal build environnement to compile unixish projects under
windoze. It provides all the common unix tools like sh, gmake...)
+- natively on Windows, using cygwin (www.cygwin.com) with or without the
+ unix emulation layer.
+
- or on Linux, using the mingw32 cross-compiler
Getting the right tools
You must also not forget to install the extra development packages if you want
to build the DirectX, GTK and SDL plugins.
-- compiling natively on Windoze:
+- compiling natively on Windoze with MSYS+MINGW:
You will need to download and install the latest MSYS (version 1.0.7 as
of now) and MINGW.
The installation is really easy. Begin with the MSYS auto-installer and once
to build the DirectX, GTK and SDL plugins.
(http://www.videolan.org/vlc/windows.html)
+- compiling natively on Windoze with cygwin:
+You will need to download and run the setup.exe app from cygwin's web site
+(www.cygwin.com).
+I'm personnaly running the experimental distribution (and gcc-3.2) with the
+exception of the autoconf tool for which I'm using the autoconf-devel-2.52-4
+package (I had problems with 2.53a-1). You will need to make sure you install
+at least the gcc-mingw, mingw-runtime and w32api packages.
NOTE: by default, the GTK package is configured to be installed in
/usr/local/gtk-win32, if you want to change this path, then you need to edit
SDL-1.2.3-win32/i386-mingw32msvc/bin/sdl-config if you plan to extract the
archive in a different directory.
+- compiling natively on Windoze with cygwin:
+You will need to download and install cygwin (www.cygwin.com).
+
+You must also not forget to install the extra development packages if you want
+to build the DirectX, GTK and SDL plugins.
+(http://www.videolan.org/vlc/windows.html)
+
Configuring the build
=====================
If you are cross-compiling from Debian, you can use something
along those lines:
- make distclean ; \
- CC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc \
+ ./bootstrap; \
+ CC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc CXX=i586-mingw32msvc-g++ \
./configure --host=i586-mingw32msvc --build=i386-linux \
--with-gtk-config-path=/usr/local/gtk-win32/bin \
--with-sdl-config-path=/usr/local/SDL-1.2.3-win32/i386-mingw32msvc/bin \
If you are cross-compiling using the mingw32 package provided by
www.videolan.org, you have to use something along those lines:
- CC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc \
+ ./bootstrap; \
+ CC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc CXX=i586-mingw32msvc-g++ \
PATH=/usr/local/cross-tools/bin:$PATH \
./configure --host=i586-mingw32msvc --build=i386-linux \
--with-gtk-config-path=/usr/local/gtk-win32/bin \
If you are compiling natively on Windoze, then you can use something
along those lines:
+ ./bootstrap; \
./configure \
--with-gtk-config-path=/c/dev/gtk-win32/bin \
--with-sdl-config-path=/c/dev/SDL-1.2.3-win32/i386-mingw32msvc/bin \
--with-directx=/c/dev/dxheaders \
--with-dvdcss-tree=../libdvdcss-win
-Note: when using the --with-dvdcss-tree you need to compile the tree
+If you are using cygwin, you can build vlc with or without the unix emulation
+layer (without is usually better). To build without the emulaion layer, use
+something like this:
+ ./bootstrap; \
+ CC="gcc -mno-cygwin" CXX="g++ -mno-cygwin" \
+ ./configure \
+ --with-gtk-config-path=/cygdrive/c/dev/gtk-win32/bin \
+ --with-sdl-config-path=/cygdrive/c/dev/SDL-1.2.3-win32/i386-mingw32msvc/bin \
+ --with-directx=/cygdrive/c/dev/dxheaders \
+ --with-dvdcss-tree=../libdvdcss-win
+If you want to use the emulation layer, then just omit the CC="gcc -mno-cygwin"
+CXX="g++ -mno-cygwin" line.
+
+Note: when using the --with-dvdcss-tree you need to compile the libdvdcss tree
beforehand.
Building VideoLAN Client
(This stage is only necessary if you want to use the Win32 native interface.
If you are happy with the GTK interface, then you can skip this section)
-1) Compile vlc as usual.
-
-2) From the plugin\win32 directory, use Borland C++ command-line tools
-as follows:
-bpr2mak intfwin.bpr -s \
- | sed 's#^LIBPATH = .*#&;$$(RELEASELIBPATH)# ; s#^USERDEFINES = .*#& -DWIN32 -D__PLUGIN__ -DMODULE_NAME_IS_intfwin -DMODULE_NAME=intfwin#' \
- > intfwin.mak // Create a makefile from intfwin.bpr
-make -fintfwin // It's Borland's make utility !
+1) Install Borland C++ Builder, you will need bpr2mak and make.
-3) This should create a intfwin.so
-You can remove any other generated file.
+2) Make sure you have the bpr2mak and bcmake (NOT make!) commands in $PATH,
+they can be symlinks to the Borland bpr2mak and make utilities, or wrappers
+that call them through Wine if you are cross-compiling from Linux.
+3) Configure vlc as usual with the --enable-intfwin flag and build it.
Well done, now you're ready to use vlc!
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