-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
- 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 METHODS
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- natively on Windows, using Microsoft Visual Studio. This will not work.
+
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++
- http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32CompileMSYS
- http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32CompileCygwin
+
Getting the additional libraries
=================================
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).