-INSTALL file for the Windows9x/Me/NT4/2k/XP version of the VLC media player
+INSTALL file for the Windows 2k/XP/Vista version of the VLC media player
Running VLC
- 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.
- NOTE: This is the PREFERRED way of building VLC natively (the others
- are not as much tested so expect more difficulties with them).
-
Read http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32CompileCygwinNew to have a complete HOWTO
- On GNU/Linux, using the mingw32 cross-compiler.
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++
- compiling natively on Windows with cygwin:
You will need to download and run the setup.exe app from cygwin's web site
Depending on your needs you will have to compile/install some or all of these
external libraries.
-* They can be found here (source code):
- http://download.videolan.org/pub/testing/contrib/
-
* 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):
Please note the "-C /".
+* They can also be found here (source code):
+ http://download.videolan.org/pub/testing/contrib/
+
* An automated way of building the contrib libraries is provided in
extra/contrib. It will download, configure and build the libraries.
See the extras/contrib/README for more info.