From 8d0a3a2da87cebfda1212dea51aa596f317b1145 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jean-Baptiste Kempf Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 22:55:09 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Make clear of what compilation is supported and which one is not for Windows. --- INSTALL.win32 | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/INSTALL.win32 b/INSTALL.win32 index bf949711b8..432dc86482 100644 --- a/INSTALL.win32 +++ b/INSTALL.win32 @@ -31,6 +31,13 @@ If you want to build VLC from sources, you can do it in several ways: 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. + This method is preferred over all the others. + +UNSUPPORTED METHODS +------------------- - 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...) @@ -46,9 +53,6 @@ If you want to build VLC from sources, you can do it in several ways: with the --fast-mutex --win9x-cv-method=1 options because the debugger usually loses signals sent by PulseEvent() ) -- or on GNU/Linux, using the mingw32 cross-compiler. - This method is preferred over all the others. - Getting the right compiler tools ================================ -- 2.39.2