Win32CompileFedora13
Win32Compile on Fedora 13 (This document is based on Win32Compile): this page give some further details for building VLC on a Fedora 13 Linux distribution with the Mingw32 cross-compilation tools. Get more informations on:
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Building VLC from source
Method | Documentation | Notes |
---|---|---|
Cross-compile with Mingw32 on Fedora 13 |
None: read this page |
Preferred method (uses cross compilation) |
Obtaining the build tools
The mingw32 cross-compile tools are available in the default repository. Install them (as root) with yum:
sudo yum --verbose --noplugins install \ mingw32-gcc-c++ \ mingw32-gcc \ mingw32-pthreads \ mingw32-w32api \ mingw32-binutils \ mingw32-runtime \ mingw32-filesystem \ mingw32-cpp \ mingw32-dlfcn-static
You may also add the ndis tools and everything needed by the make package-win32*
targets:
sudo yum --verbose --noplugins install \ mingw32-nsiswrapper \ mingw32-nsis \ zip \ p7zip \ lua
To make 7zip work, add a symlink:
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/7za /usr/win32/bin/7z
Add /usr/win32/bin to your 'PATH' (best to add this to your ~/.bash_profile file to make it permanent):
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/win32/bin
NOTE: On my Fedora 16 system, mingw binaries are in /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/bin/:
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/7za /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/bin/7z export PATH=$PATH:/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/bin
You also need the Fedora qt-devel package, even if you are using Linux to cross-compile to a Windows exe (for moc and uic):
sudo yum install qt-devel
Note: pre-built Windows Qt is 4.6.0 but the yum installed version for Linux is actually 4.6.3... If it is problematic try to downgrade the qt installed versions:
sudo yum downgrade qt*-4.6.0
Be sure that you have pkg-config installed (check with yum info installed pkgconfig
) as the installed /usr/bin/i686-pc-mingw32-pkg-config is not working correctly.
Saving time by using pre-built libraries
For QT4 you will need (to ease the compilation) to add some links in '/usr/win32/bin' (or /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/bin):
cd /usr/win32/bin sudo ln -s /usr/bin/moc-qt4 . sudo ln -s /usr/bin/uic-qt4 . sudo ln -s /usr/bin/rcc .
Note: The rest of this section may be out of date; see Win32Compile section under Prepare 3rd party libraries. You will need to export the shell environment variable
export PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=../contrib/i686-pc-mingw32/lib/pkgconfig
.
Note: for contrib-xxxxxxx-win32-bin-gcc-4.4.2-runtime-3.17-only.tar.bz2 you need to install mingw32-runtime-3.17
If you want to save yourself time and energy by using the pre-built versions of these libraries, you may download them from http://people.videolan.org/~jb/Contribs/, the version you download must match that of the MINGW compiler.
For the installed mingw32 packages the available versions are: http://people.videolan.org/~jb/Contribs/contrib-xxxxxxx-win32-bin-gcc-4.4.2-runtime-3.15-only.tar.bz2, where xxxxx is a date
Install this (as root) with:
tar jxf contrib-xxxxxxx-win32-bin-gcc-4.4.2-runtime-3.15-only.tar.bz2 -C /
Note the -C /
!
A pre-version is actually available here: http://rpmfarm.free.fr/13/i386/RPMS.farm/mingw32-runtime-3.17-1.EL.fc13.noarch.rpm
Note: previous contrib tarball is missing some files: /usr/win32/include/mpcdec/config_win32.h
A temporary version is available here: http://rpmfarm.free.fr/src/Patches/VLC/mpcdec_config_win32.h
Configuring the build
First prepare the build process in the vlc tree (fetched via git - See Git#Getting_VLC_or_x264_source_code_via_Git) by doing:
cd vlc ./bootstrap
Once you've got all the files you need in place and the bootstap is done, you need to configure the build with the following configure script (created in extras/package/win32 and named configure-mingw-f13.sh). In the following examples, assume that the third-party libraries are installed as above:
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | #!/bin/sh | | root=$(echo $0|sed 's#extras/package/win32/configure-mingw-fr13.sh##')./ | | if [ -n "$1" ] | then | CONTRIBS="$1" | else | CONTRIBS="/usr/win32" | fi | export CONTRIBS | | PATH="$CONTRIBS/bin:$PATH" \ | PKG_CONFIG=/usr/bin/pkg-config \ | PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=$CONTRIBS/lib/pkgconfig \ | CPPFLAGS="-I$CONTRIBS/include -I$CONTRIBS/include/ebml" \ | LDFLAGS="-L$CONTRIBS/lib" \ | CC=i686-pc-mingw32-gcc CXX=i686-pc-mingw32-g++ \ | CONFIG="${root}configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32 --build=i386-linux | --enable-dirac --enable-mkv --enable-taglib --enable-nls --enable-projectm" \ | sh ${root}extras/package/win32/configure-common.sh +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
See ./configure --help
for more information.
Building VLC
Once configured, to build VLC, just run make
.
Note:
you may need make MOC=/usr/bin/moc-qt4 UIC=/usr/bin/uic-qt4
in modules/gui/qt4) if you haven't done the links.
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:
Command | Description |
---|---|
make package-win32-base
|
Creates a subdirectory named vlc-x.x.x with all the binaries 'stripped' (that is, smallest size, unusable with a debugger)
|
make package-win32-zip
|
Same as above but will package the directory in a zip file. |
make package-win32
|
Same as above but will also create an auto-installer package. You must have NSIS installed in its default location for this to work. |
Notes:
You'll need to add /usr/win32/bin to the path and as you used MinGW, you need to copy the mingw libgcc_s_sjlj-1.dll into the installation folder near vlc.exe (you'll find the dll on your system as you installed the mingw packages):
cp /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/libgcc_s_sjlj-1.dll vlc-<current_version>/
Well done—you're ready to use VLC!