From b3bf199ac813894773318e7fcd05f0c10cfdee7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?R=C3=A9mi=20Denis-Courmont?= Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:05:06 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] VS has not been supported for ages. --- INSTALL.win32 | 15 ++++----------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/INSTALL.win32 b/INSTALL.win32 index 6ad01e51b5..bc0d03d8f9 100644 --- a/INSTALL.win32 +++ b/INSTALL.win32 @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ If you want to build VLC from sources, you can do it in several ways: 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. + This method is preferred over all the others. UNSUPPORTED METHODS ------------------- @@ -42,14 +42,7 @@ UNSUPPORTED METHODS 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. -- natively on Windows, using Microsoft Visual C++. Even though we provide some - msvc project files with vlc, this method is advised only if you just want to - experiment/play with some basic functionality in vlc. The reason for this - is that vlc depends on a lot of 3rd party libraries and building them in - MSVC is not convenient and sometimes even impossible. - ( NOTE: if you want to run vlc under the msvc debugger, you need to run it - with the --fast-mutex --win9x-cv-method=1 options because the debugger - usually loses signals sent by PulseEvent() ) +- natively on Windows, using Microsoft Visual Studio. This will not work. Getting the right compiler tools ================================ @@ -60,12 +53,12 @@ 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 mingw32-runtime packages. -- compiling natively on Windoze with cygwin: +- compiling natively on Windows with cygwin: You will need to download and run the setup.exe app from cygwin's web site (www.cygwin.com). You will also need to make sure you install at least the gcc-g++, gcc-mingw, mingw-runtime and win32-api packages. -- compiling natively on Windoze with MSYS+MINGW: +- compiling natively on Windows with MSYS+MINGW: You will need to download and install the latest MSYS, MSYS-DTK and MINGW. The installation is really easy. Begin with the MSYS auto-installer and once this is done, extract MINGW into c:\msys\1.0\mingw. You also have to remember -- 2.39.2