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[vlc] / INSTALL.win32

diff --git a/INSTALL.win32 b/INSTALL.win32
index e572faf0b31defd803a1ba61cbe2e1f3e26966b9..c94fe3b63564a7ee31548de8048b2a24f9acaa47 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL.win32
+++ b/INSTALL.win32
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-INSTALL file for the Windows 2k/XP/Vista/Seven version of the VLC media player
+INSTALL file for the Windows XP/Vista/Seven version of VLC media player
 
 
 Running VLC
@@ -24,22 +24,20 @@ 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 mingw32 cross-compiler.
-  This method is preferred over all the others.
+  This is the preferred method, as this is the one used by VideoLAN to
+  build the official Windows binaries.
 
 - natively on Windows, using MSYS+MINGW (www.mingw.org)
   (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.
+  windows. It provides all the common Unix tools like sh, gmake...)
+
+UNSUPPORTED METHOD
+------------------
 
-UNSUPPORTED METHODS
--------------------
 - natively on Windows, using cygwin (www.cygwin.com) with or without the
-  POSIX emulation layer. This is the preferred way to compile vlc if you want
-  to do it on Windows.
+  POSIX emulation layer.
   Read http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32CompileCygwinNew to have a complete HOWTO
 
-- natively on Windows, using Microsoft Visual Studio. This will not work.
 
 Getting the right compiler tools
 ================================
@@ -47,7 +45,7 @@ Getting the right compiler tools
 - cross-compiling with mingw32:
 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
+For Debian GNU/Linux users, you can use the gcc-mingw32, mingw32-binutils and
 mingw32-runtime packages.
 For Fedora users, you can use mingw-binutils, mingw-gcc-core, mingw-gcc-g++
 
@@ -55,6 +53,7 @@ For MingW and Cygwin, please refer to our Wiki:
 - http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32CompileMSYS
 - http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32CompileCygwin
 
+
 Getting the additional libraries
 =================================
 
@@ -65,14 +64,14 @@ Usually, you don't want to compile those by yourself, so use pre-compiled ones.
 * 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 (these compiled
   libraries will only work with mingw or cygwin):
-  http://download.videolan.org/pub/testing/win32/contrib-200xxxxx-win32-bin-gcc-x.x.x-only.tar.bz2
+  http://download.videolan.org/pub/testing/win32/contrib-201xxxxx-win32-bin-gcc-x.x.x-runtime-x.xx.x-only.tar.bz2
   (Check out for 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/win32). You can do this with the following
   command: 
 
-    tar xjvf contrib-20060330-win32-bin-gcc-3.4.5-only.tar.bz2 -C /
+    tar xjvf contrib-20110614-win32-bin-gcc-4.4.4-runtime-3.15.2-only.tar.bz2 -C /
 
   Please note the "-C /".
 
@@ -117,7 +116,7 @@ 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
+  make package-win-base
    will create a subdirectory named vlc-x.x.x with all the binaries
    'stripped' (ie. without any debugging symbols).