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Win32CompileMSYSNew

2010-01-19T13:41:38Z

Akzhan: /* Notes from January 2010 */

== Introduction ==

MSYS is a helper environment for MinGW, the compiler chain for Windows based on GCC. It is the fastest way to build VLC natively on Windows.

This howto was re-created by [[User:J-b|Jean-Baptiste Kempf]] and updated in June 2009.

== Install MinGW ==

Use the main installer 5.1.4 found at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Automated%20MinGW%20Installer/MinGW%205.1.4/MinGW-5.1.4.exe/download

Go through the wizard, selecting "Downloading and Install" and using the candidate release. Select gcc, g++ and MinGW make. It should download automatically:
*mingwrt-3.15
*w32api-3.12
*binutils-2.18
*gcc-core-3.4.5
*gcc-g++-3.4.5
*mingw32-make-3.81

== Notes from December 2009 ==

Currently the MinGW installer adds mingwrt-3.17 which is not compatible with the precompiled contribs mentioned below. You should manually download and install 3.15 found at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW%20Runtime/mingwrt-3.15.2/mingwrt-3.15.2-mingw32-dev.tar.gz/download

The precompiled contribs also require gcc 4.2.1 found at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/GCC%20Version%204/Previous%20Testing_%20gcc-4.2.1-sjlj%20-2/gcc-core-4.2.1-sjlj-2.tar.gz/download
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/GCC%20Version%204/Previous%20Testing_%20gcc-4.2.1-sjlj%20-2/gcc-g%2B%2B-4.2.1-sjlj-2.tar.gz/download

After downloading and unpacking those two files you can switch MinGW to use the new version with
mv /mingw/bin/c++.exe /mingw/bin/c++.345.exe
mv /mingw/bin/g++.exe /mingw/bin/g++.345.exe
mv /mingw/bin/gcc.exe /mingw/bin/gcc.345.exe
mv /mingw/bin/g++-sjlj.exe /mingw/bin/g++.exe
mv /mingw/bin/c++-sjlj.exe /mingw/bin/c++.exe
mv /mingw/bin/gcc-sjlj.exe /mingw/bin/gcc.exe

It also needs
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/GCC%20Version%204/Current%20Release_%20gcc-4.4.0/gcc-core-4.4.0-mingw32-dll.tar.gz/download
to be installed otherwise there are warnings about a libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll missing when it comes to compiling the qt4 interface.

== Notes from January 2010 ==

Now You can build VLC using GCC 4.4.2 and mingw runtime 3.17 using minor patches:
* Before installing of MSys (after installing of latest mingw) rename MinGW/bin/mingw32-make.exe to mingw/bin/make.exe. It will be renamed back by post install script.
* Install full GCC 4.4.2, and change MinGW\lib\gcc\mingw32\4.4.2\libstdc++.la (<code><nowiki>library_names=''</nowiki></code>) due to bug in latest MinGW.

== Install MSYS ==

* Install 7-zip and Mozilla Firefox
* Install MSys 1.0.11-rc1 with the exe: http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=2435&filename=MSYS-1.0.11.exe
Accept Post Install: [y]
MinGW Installed? : [y]
path to MinGW: [c:/MinGW]
* Install MSys Developer Tooltkit: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/msysDTK-1.0.1.exe

=== AutoTools ===

Update your autoconf, automake and libtool by downloading and installing them, keeping in mind that you need to extract the content of the usr folder in C:\Msys
* http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS%20autoconf/autoconf-2.63-1/autoconf-2.63-1-msys-1.0.11-bin.tar.lzma/download
* http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS%20automake/automake-1.11-1/automake-1.11-1-msys-1.0.11-bin.tar.lzma/download
* http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS%20libtool/libtool-2.2.7a-1/libtool-2.2.7a-1-msys-1.0.11-bin.tar.lzma/download

You can also compile them according to:
* http://wiki.enlightenment.org/index.php/EFL_Windows_XP
* http://www.mingw.org/wiki/msys

== Install other tools ==

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/libcrypt-1.1_1-2-msys-1.0.11-dll-0.tar.lzma

Installing mingw-utils is recommended: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/mingw-utils-0.3.tar.gz, extract it to mingw/bin.

Installation of wget too: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/wget-1.9.1-mingwPORT.tar.bz2

Although this is a mingwPORT package it already has a precompiled wget on board.
Extract the .tar.bz2 file. It contains wget.exe in the bin subfolder, extract it to mingw/bin.

=== Install Git and checkout VLC ===

See [[Git_Windows]].

You can also retrieve the source code from [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-sources.html VideoLAN Project: VLC media player source code]

=== PKG-CONFIG ===

pkg-config is a mess, this is not NEWS... And you cannot compile it from Windows because of a few bugs...

Get Glib from GNOME: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/glib/2.18/glib_2.18.2-1_win32.zip
Unzip it to C:\Msys.

Get PKG-CONFIG from GNOME: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/pkg-config_0.23-3_win32.zip
and ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/pkg-config-dev_0.23-3_win32.zip
Unzip them to C:\Msys.

== Contribs ==

Take the precompiled contribs from:
http://people.videolan.org/~jb/Contribs/

Copy them in your ~
tar xvjf contrib-20090813-win32-bin-gcc-4.2.1-sjlj-runtime-3.15.2-only.tar.bz2 -C /
rm -v /usr/win32/bin/moc /usr/win32/bin/uic /usr/win32/bin/rcc

== Bootstrap VLC ==

cp -v /usr/win32/share/aclocal/* m4/
cp -v /usr/share/aclocal/* m4/
PATH=/usr/win32/bin:$PATH ./bootstrap
It should warn about gettext... Just ignore.

== Configure ==

sh extras/package/win32/configure-msys.sh
* If you downloaded a VLC source code tarball, retrieve ''configure-msys.sh'' and ''configure-common.sh'' from [[http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=summary vlc.git]] / extras / package / win32 /
* If Your user name starts from "u" or "x" characters, change config.h (double all backslashes in COMPILED_BY constant to avoid compilation errors) after configuring.

== Compile ==

PATH=/usr/win32/bin:$PATH make
If you have Cygwin and others tools installed, try using a shorter PATH inside MSYS shell i.e.
$ echo $PATH
.:/usr/local/bin:/mingw/bin:/bin

==Creating self-contained packages==

Once the compilation is done, build self-contained VLC packages with the following "make" commands:

make package-win32-base

(This will create a subdirectory named vlc-x.x.x with all the binaries "stripped" without any debugging symbols).

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 will need to have NSIS installed in its default location for this to work).

* If you have permissions problems running make package-*, chmod 777 -R the vlc folder.
* If you have permissions problems running vlc.exe after packaging, rename or delete vlc.exe.manifest

== Random bootstrap, configure, and make errors ==

There have been reports of random msys errors during bootstrap, configure, and make. They usually don't repeat themselves between runs. Rule out that your mingw-msys installation is at fault by building in windows safe mode. Even if this works, it may then be more practical to try a cross-compilation build.

Win32CompileMSYSNew

2010-01-18T17:29:46Z

Akzhan: /* Configure */

== Introduction ==

MSYS is a helper environment for MinGW, the compiler chain for Windows based on GCC. It is the fastest way to build VLC natively on Windows.

This howto was re-created by [[User:J-b|Jean-Baptiste Kempf]] and updated in June 2009.

== Install MinGW ==

Use the main installer 5.1.4 found at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Automated%20MinGW%20Installer/MinGW%205.1.4/MinGW-5.1.4.exe/download

Go through the wizard, selecting "Downloading and Install" and using the candidate release. Select gcc, g++ and MinGW make. It should download automatically:
*mingwrt-3.15
*w32api-3.12
*binutils-2.18
*gcc-core-3.4.5
*gcc-g++-3.4.5
*mingw32-make-3.81

== Notes from December 2009 ==

Currently the MinGW installer adds mingwrt-3.17 which is not compatible with the precompiled contribs mentioned below. You should manually download and install 3.15 found at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW%20Runtime/mingwrt-3.15.2/mingwrt-3.15.2-mingw32-dev.tar.gz/download

The precompiled contribs also require gcc 4.2.1 found at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/GCC%20Version%204/Previous%20Testing_%20gcc-4.2.1-sjlj%20-2/gcc-core-4.2.1-sjlj-2.tar.gz/download
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/GCC%20Version%204/Previous%20Testing_%20gcc-4.2.1-sjlj%20-2/gcc-g%2B%2B-4.2.1-sjlj-2.tar.gz/download

After downloading and unpacking those two files you can switch MinGW to use the new version with
mv /mingw/bin/c++.exe /mingw/bin/c++.345.exe
mv /mingw/bin/g++.exe /mingw/bin/g++.345.exe
mv /mingw/bin/gcc.exe /mingw/bin/gcc.345.exe
mv /mingw/bin/g++-sjlj.exe /mingw/bin/g++.exe
mv /mingw/bin/c++-sjlj.exe /mingw/bin/c++.exe
mv /mingw/bin/gcc-sjlj.exe /mingw/bin/gcc.exe

It also needs
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/GCC%20Version%204/Current%20Release_%20gcc-4.4.0/gcc-core-4.4.0-mingw32-dll.tar.gz/download
to be installed otherwise there are warnings about a libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll missing when it comes to compiling the qt4 interface.

== Notes from January 2010 ==

Now You can build VLC using GCC 4.4.0 and mingw runtime 3.17 using minor patches:
* Before installing of MSys (after installing of latest mingw) rename MinGW/bin/mingw32-make.exe to mingw/bin/make.exe. It will be renamed back by post install script.
* Install full GCC 4.4.0 binaries, and change MinGW\lib\gcc\mingw32\4.4.0\libstdc++.la (<code><nowiki>library_names=''</nowiki></code>) due to bug in latest MinGW.

== Install MSYS ==

* Install 7-zip and Mozilla Firefox
* Install MSys 1.0.11-rc1 with the exe: http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=2435&filename=MSYS-1.0.11.exe
Accept Post Install: [y]
MinGW Installed? : [y]
path to MinGW: [c:/MinGW]
* Install MSys Developer Tooltkit: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/msysDTK-1.0.1.exe

=== AutoTools ===

Update your autoconf, automake and libtool by downloading and installing them, keeping in mind that you need to extract the content of the usr folder in C:\Msys
* http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS%20autoconf/autoconf-2.63-1/autoconf-2.63-1-msys-1.0.11-bin.tar.lzma/download
* http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS%20automake/automake-1.11-1/automake-1.11-1-msys-1.0.11-bin.tar.lzma/download
* http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS%20libtool/libtool-2.2.7a-1/libtool-2.2.7a-1-msys-1.0.11-bin.tar.lzma/download

You can also compile them according to:
* http://wiki.enlightenment.org/index.php/EFL_Windows_XP
* http://www.mingw.org/wiki/msys

== Install other tools ==

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/libcrypt-1.1_1-2-msys-1.0.11-dll-0.tar.lzma

Installing mingw-utils is recommended: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/mingw-utils-0.3.tar.gz, extract it to mingw/bin.

Installation of wget too: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/wget-1.9.1-mingwPORT.tar.bz2

Although this is a mingwPORT package it already has a precompiled wget on board.
Extract the .tar.bz2 file. It contains wget.exe in the bin subfolder, extract it to mingw/bin.

=== Install Git and checkout VLC ===

See [[Git_Windows]].

You can also retrieve the source code from [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-sources.html VideoLAN Project: VLC media player source code]

=== PKG-CONFIG ===

pkg-config is a mess, this is not NEWS... And you cannot compile it from Windows because of a few bugs...

Get Glib from GNOME: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/glib/2.18/glib_2.18.2-1_win32.zip
Unzip it to C:\Msys.

Get PKG-CONFIG from GNOME: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/pkg-config_0.23-3_win32.zip
and ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/pkg-config-dev_0.23-3_win32.zip
Unzip them to C:\Msys.

== Contribs ==

Take the precompiled contribs from:
http://people.videolan.org/~jb/Contribs/

Copy them in your ~
tar xvjf contrib-20090813-win32-bin-gcc-4.2.1-sjlj-runtime-3.15.2-only.tar.bz2 -C /
rm -v /usr/win32/bin/moc /usr/win32/bin/uic /usr/win32/bin/rcc

== Bootstrap VLC ==

cp -v /usr/win32/share/aclocal/* m4/
cp -v /usr/share/aclocal/* m4/
PATH=/usr/win32/bin:$PATH ./bootstrap
It should warn about gettext... Just ignore.

== Configure ==

sh extras/package/win32/configure-msys.sh
* If you downloaded a VLC source code tarball, retrieve ''configure-msys.sh'' and ''configure-common.sh'' from [[http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=summary vlc.git]] / extras / package / win32 /
* If Your user name starts from "u" or "x" characters, change config.h (double all backslashes in COMPILED_BY constant to avoid compilation errors) after configuring.

== Compile ==

PATH=/usr/win32/bin:$PATH make
If you have Cygwin and others tools installed, try using a shorter PATH inside MSYS shell i.e.
$ echo $PATH
.:/usr/local/bin:/mingw/bin:/bin

==Creating self-contained packages==

Once the compilation is done, build self-contained VLC packages with the following "make" commands:

make package-win32-base

(This will create a subdirectory named vlc-x.x.x with all the binaries "stripped" without any debugging symbols).

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 will need to have NSIS installed in its default location for this to work).

* If you have permissions problems running make package-*, chmod 777 -R the vlc folder.
* If you have permissions problems running vlc.exe after packaging, rename or delete vlc.exe.manifest

== Random bootstrap, configure, and make errors ==

There have been reports of random msys errors during bootstrap, configure, and make. They usually don't repeat themselves between runs. Rule out that your mingw-msys installation is at fault by building in windows safe mode. Even if this works, it may then be more practical to try a cross-compilation build.

Win32CompileMSYSNew

2010-01-18T17:26:58Z

Akzhan: Way to handle packaging bug.

== Introduction ==

MSYS is a helper environment for MinGW, the compiler chain for Windows based on GCC. It is the fastest way to build VLC natively on Windows.

This howto was re-created by [[User:J-b|Jean-Baptiste Kempf]] and updated in June 2009.

== Install MinGW ==

Use the main installer 5.1.4 found at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Automated%20MinGW%20Installer/MinGW%205.1.4/MinGW-5.1.4.exe/download

Go through the wizard, selecting "Downloading and Install" and using the candidate release. Select gcc, g++ and MinGW make. It should download automatically:
*mingwrt-3.15
*w32api-3.12
*binutils-2.18
*gcc-core-3.4.5
*gcc-g++-3.4.5
*mingw32-make-3.81

== Notes from December 2009 ==

Currently the MinGW installer adds mingwrt-3.17 which is not compatible with the precompiled contribs mentioned below. You should manually download and install 3.15 found at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW%20Runtime/mingwrt-3.15.2/mingwrt-3.15.2-mingw32-dev.tar.gz/download

The precompiled contribs also require gcc 4.2.1 found at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/GCC%20Version%204/Previous%20Testing_%20gcc-4.2.1-sjlj%20-2/gcc-core-4.2.1-sjlj-2.tar.gz/download
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/GCC%20Version%204/Previous%20Testing_%20gcc-4.2.1-sjlj%20-2/gcc-g%2B%2B-4.2.1-sjlj-2.tar.gz/download

After downloading and unpacking those two files you can switch MinGW to use the new version with
mv /mingw/bin/c++.exe /mingw/bin/c++.345.exe
mv /mingw/bin/g++.exe /mingw/bin/g++.345.exe
mv /mingw/bin/gcc.exe /mingw/bin/gcc.345.exe
mv /mingw/bin/g++-sjlj.exe /mingw/bin/g++.exe
mv /mingw/bin/c++-sjlj.exe /mingw/bin/c++.exe
mv /mingw/bin/gcc-sjlj.exe /mingw/bin/gcc.exe

It also needs
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/GCC%20Version%204/Current%20Release_%20gcc-4.4.0/gcc-core-4.4.0-mingw32-dll.tar.gz/download
to be installed otherwise there are warnings about a libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll missing when it comes to compiling the qt4 interface.

== Notes from January 2010 ==

Now You can build VLC using GCC 4.4.0 and mingw runtime 3.17 using minor patches:
* Before installing of MSys (after installing of latest mingw) rename MinGW/bin/mingw32-make.exe to mingw/bin/make.exe. It will be renamed back by post install script.
* Install full GCC 4.4.0 binaries, and change MinGW\lib\gcc\mingw32\4.4.0\libstdc++.la (<code><nowiki>library_names=''</nowiki></code>) due to bug in latest MinGW.

== Install MSYS ==

* Install 7-zip and Mozilla Firefox
* Install MSys 1.0.11-rc1 with the exe: http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=2435&filename=MSYS-1.0.11.exe
Accept Post Install: [y]
MinGW Installed? : [y]
path to MinGW: [c:/MinGW]
* Install MSys Developer Tooltkit: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/msysDTK-1.0.1.exe

=== AutoTools ===

Update your autoconf, automake and libtool by downloading and installing them, keeping in mind that you need to extract the content of the usr folder in C:\Msys
* http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS%20autoconf/autoconf-2.63-1/autoconf-2.63-1-msys-1.0.11-bin.tar.lzma/download
* http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS%20automake/automake-1.11-1/automake-1.11-1-msys-1.0.11-bin.tar.lzma/download
* http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS%20libtool/libtool-2.2.7a-1/libtool-2.2.7a-1-msys-1.0.11-bin.tar.lzma/download

You can also compile them according to:
* http://wiki.enlightenment.org/index.php/EFL_Windows_XP
* http://www.mingw.org/wiki/msys

== Install other tools ==

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/libcrypt-1.1_1-2-msys-1.0.11-dll-0.tar.lzma

Installing mingw-utils is recommended: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/mingw-utils-0.3.tar.gz, extract it to mingw/bin.

Installation of wget too: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/wget-1.9.1-mingwPORT.tar.bz2

Although this is a mingwPORT package it already has a precompiled wget on board.
Extract the .tar.bz2 file. It contains wget.exe in the bin subfolder, extract it to mingw/bin.

=== Install Git and checkout VLC ===

See [[Git_Windows]].

You can also retrieve the source code from [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-sources.html VideoLAN Project: VLC media player source code]

=== PKG-CONFIG ===

pkg-config is a mess, this is not NEWS... And you cannot compile it from Windows because of a few bugs...

Get Glib from GNOME: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/glib/2.18/glib_2.18.2-1_win32.zip
Unzip it to C:\Msys.

Get PKG-CONFIG from GNOME: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/pkg-config_0.23-3_win32.zip
and ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/pkg-config-dev_0.23-3_win32.zip
Unzip them to C:\Msys.

== Contribs ==

Take the precompiled contribs from:
http://people.videolan.org/~jb/Contribs/

Copy them in your ~
tar xvjf contrib-20090813-win32-bin-gcc-4.2.1-sjlj-runtime-3.15.2-only.tar.bz2 -C /
rm -v /usr/win32/bin/moc /usr/win32/bin/uic /usr/win32/bin/rcc

== Bootstrap VLC ==

cp -v /usr/win32/share/aclocal/* m4/
cp -v /usr/share/aclocal/* m4/
PATH=/usr/win32/bin:$PATH ./bootstrap
It should warn about gettext... Just ignore.

== Configure ==

sh extras/package/win32/configure-msys.sh
* If you downloaded a VLC source code tarball, retrieve ''configure-msys.sh'' and ''configure-common.sh'' from [[http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=summary vlc.git]] / extras / package / win32 /
* If Your user name starts from "u" or "x" characters, change config.h (double slash in COMPILED_BY constant).

== Compile ==

PATH=/usr/win32/bin:$PATH make
If you have Cygwin and others tools installed, try using a shorter PATH inside MSYS shell i.e.
$ echo $PATH
.:/usr/local/bin:/mingw/bin:/bin

==Creating self-contained packages==

Once the compilation is done, build self-contained VLC packages with the following "make" commands:

make package-win32-base

(This will create a subdirectory named vlc-x.x.x with all the binaries "stripped" without any debugging symbols).

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 will need to have NSIS installed in its default location for this to work).

* If you have permissions problems running make package-*, chmod 777 -R the vlc folder.
* If you have permissions problems running vlc.exe after packaging, rename or delete vlc.exe.manifest

== Random bootstrap, configure, and make errors ==

There have been reports of random msys errors during bootstrap, configure, and make. They usually don't repeat themselves between runs. Rule out that your mingw-msys installation is at fault by building in windows safe mode. Even if this works, it may then be more practical to try a cross-compilation build.

Win32CompileMSYSNew

2010-01-18T17:06:05Z

Akzhan: Change order of notes.

== Introduction ==

MSYS is a helper environment for MinGW, the compiler chain for Windows based on GCC. It is the fastest way to build VLC natively on Windows.

This howto was re-created by [[User:J-b|Jean-Baptiste Kempf]] and updated in June 2009.

== Install MinGW ==

Use the main installer 5.1.4 found at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Automated%20MinGW%20Installer/MinGW%205.1.4/MinGW-5.1.4.exe/download

Go through the wizard, selecting "Downloading and Install" and using the candidate release. Select gcc, g++ and MinGW make. It should download automatically:
*mingwrt-3.15
*w32api-3.12
*binutils-2.18
*gcc-core-3.4.5
*gcc-g++-3.4.5
*mingw32-make-3.81

== Notes from December 2009 ==

Currently the MinGW installer adds mingwrt-3.17 which is not compatible with the precompiled contribs mentioned below. You should manually download and install 3.15 found at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW%20Runtime/mingwrt-3.15.2/mingwrt-3.15.2-mingw32-dev.tar.gz/download

The precompiled contribs also require gcc 4.2.1 found at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/GCC%20Version%204/Previous%20Testing_%20gcc-4.2.1-sjlj%20-2/gcc-core-4.2.1-sjlj-2.tar.gz/download
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/GCC%20Version%204/Previous%20Testing_%20gcc-4.2.1-sjlj%20-2/gcc-g%2B%2B-4.2.1-sjlj-2.tar.gz/download

After downloading and unpacking those two files you can switch MinGW to use the new version with
mv /mingw/bin/c++.exe /mingw/bin/c++.345.exe
mv /mingw/bin/g++.exe /mingw/bin/g++.345.exe
mv /mingw/bin/gcc.exe /mingw/bin/gcc.345.exe
mv /mingw/bin/g++-sjlj.exe /mingw/bin/g++.exe
mv /mingw/bin/c++-sjlj.exe /mingw/bin/c++.exe
mv /mingw/bin/gcc-sjlj.exe /mingw/bin/gcc.exe

It also needs
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/GCC%20Version%204/Current%20Release_%20gcc-4.4.0/gcc-core-4.4.0-mingw32-dll.tar.gz/download
to be installed otherwise there are warnings about a libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll missing when it comes to compiling the qt4 interface.

== Notes from January 2010 ==

Now You can build VLC using GCC 4.4.0 and mingw runtime 3.17 using minor patches:
* Before installing of MSys (after installing of latest mingw) rename MinGW/bin/mingw32-make.exe to mingw/bin/make.exe. It will be renamed back by post install script.
* Install full GCC 4.4.0 binaries, and change MinGW\lib\gcc\mingw32\4.4.0\libstdc++.la (<code><nowiki>library_names=''</nowiki></code>) due to bug in latest MinGW.

== Install MSYS ==

* Install 7-zip and Mozilla Firefox
* Install MSys 1.0.11-rc1 with the exe: http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=2435&filename=MSYS-1.0.11.exe
Accept Post Install: [y]
MinGW Installed? : [y]
path to MinGW: [c:/MinGW]
* Install MSys Developer Tooltkit: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/msysDTK-1.0.1.exe

=== AutoTools ===

Update your autoconf, automake and libtool by downloading and installing them, keeping in mind that you need to extract the content of the usr folder in C:\Msys
* http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS%20autoconf/autoconf-2.63-1/autoconf-2.63-1-msys-1.0.11-bin.tar.lzma/download
* http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS%20automake/automake-1.11-1/automake-1.11-1-msys-1.0.11-bin.tar.lzma/download
* http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS%20libtool/libtool-2.2.7a-1/libtool-2.2.7a-1-msys-1.0.11-bin.tar.lzma/download

You can also compile them according to:
* http://wiki.enlightenment.org/index.php/EFL_Windows_XP
* http://www.mingw.org/wiki/msys

== Install other tools ==

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/libcrypt-1.1_1-2-msys-1.0.11-dll-0.tar.lzma

Installing mingw-utils is recommended: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/mingw-utils-0.3.tar.gz, extract it to mingw/bin.

Installation of wget too: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/wget-1.9.1-mingwPORT.tar.bz2

Although this is a mingwPORT package it already has a precompiled wget on board.
Extract the .tar.bz2 file. It contains wget.exe in the bin subfolder, extract it to mingw/bin.

=== Install Git and checkout VLC ===

See [[Git_Windows]].

You can also retrieve the source code from [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-sources.html VideoLAN Project: VLC media player source code]

=== PKG-CONFIG ===

pkg-config is a mess, this is not NEWS... And you cannot compile it from Windows because of a few bugs...

Get Glib from GNOME: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/glib/2.18/glib_2.18.2-1_win32.zip
Unzip it to C:\Msys.

Get PKG-CONFIG from GNOME: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/pkg-config_0.23-3_win32.zip
and ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/pkg-config-dev_0.23-3_win32.zip
Unzip them to C:\Msys.

== Contribs ==

Take the precompiled contribs from:
http://people.videolan.org/~jb/Contribs/

Copy them in your ~
tar xvjf contrib-20090813-win32-bin-gcc-4.2.1-sjlj-runtime-3.15.2-only.tar.bz2 -C /
rm -v /usr/win32/bin/moc /usr/win32/bin/uic /usr/win32/bin/rcc

== Bootstrap VLC ==

cp -v /usr/win32/share/aclocal/* m4/
cp -v /usr/share/aclocal/* m4/
PATH=/usr/win32/bin:$PATH ./bootstrap
It should warn about gettext... Just ignore.

== Configure ==

sh extras/package/win32/configure-msys.sh
* If you downloaded a VLC source code tarball, retrieve ''configure-msys.sh'' and ''configure-common.sh'' from [[http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=summary vlc.git]] / extras / package / win32 /

== Compile ==

PATH=/usr/win32/bin:$PATH make
If you have Cygwin and others tools installed, try using a shorter PATH inside MSYS shell i.e.
$ echo $PATH
.:/usr/local/bin:/mingw/bin:/bin

==Creating self-contained packages==

Once the compilation is done, build self-contained VLC packages with the following "make" commands:

make package-win32-base

(This will create a subdirectory named vlc-x.x.x with all the binaries "stripped" without any debugging symbols).

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 will need to have NSIS installed in its default location for this to work).

* If you have permissions problems running make package-*, chmod 777 -R the vlc folder.
* If you have permissions problems running vlc.exe after packaging, rename or delete vlc.exe.manifest

== Random bootstrap, configure, and make errors ==

There have been reports of random msys errors during bootstrap, configure, and make. They usually don't repeat themselves between runs. Rule out that your mingw-msys installation is at fault by building in windows safe mode. Even if this works, it may then be more practical to try a cross-compilation build.

Win32CompileMSYSNew

2010-01-18T17:05:11Z

Akzhan: /* Notes from January 2010 */ Wiki formatting

== Introduction ==

MSYS is a helper environment for MinGW, the compiler chain for Windows based on GCC. It is the fastest way to build VLC natively on Windows.

This howto was re-created by [[User:J-b|Jean-Baptiste Kempf]] and updated in June 2009.

== Install MinGW ==

Use the main installer 5.1.4 found at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Automated%20MinGW%20Installer/MinGW%205.1.4/MinGW-5.1.4.exe/download

Go through the wizard, selecting "Downloading and Install" and using the candidate release. Select gcc, g++ and MinGW make. It should download automatically:
*mingwrt-3.15
*w32api-3.12
*binutils-2.18
*gcc-core-3.4.5
*gcc-g++-3.4.5
*mingw32-make-3.81

== Notes from December 2009 ==

Currently the MinGW installer adds mingwrt-3.17 which is not compatible with the precompiled contribs mentioned below. You should manually download and install 3.15 found at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW%20Runtime/mingwrt-3.15.2/mingwrt-3.15.2-mingw32-dev.tar.gz/download

The precompiled contribs also require gcc 4.2.1 found at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/GCC%20Version%204/Previous%20Testing_%20gcc-4.2.1-sjlj%20-2/gcc-core-4.2.1-sjlj-2.tar.gz/download
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/GCC%20Version%204/Previous%20Testing_%20gcc-4.2.1-sjlj%20-2/gcc-g%2B%2B-4.2.1-sjlj-2.tar.gz/download

After downloading and unpacking those two files you can switch MinGW to use the new version with
mv /mingw/bin/c++.exe /mingw/bin/c++.345.exe
mv /mingw/bin/g++.exe /mingw/bin/g++.345.exe
mv /mingw/bin/gcc.exe /mingw/bin/gcc.345.exe
mv /mingw/bin/g++-sjlj.exe /mingw/bin/g++.exe
mv /mingw/bin/c++-sjlj.exe /mingw/bin/c++.exe
mv /mingw/bin/gcc-sjlj.exe /mingw/bin/gcc.exe

It also needs
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/GCC%20Version%204/Current%20Release_%20gcc-4.4.0/gcc-core-4.4.0-mingw32-dll.tar.gz/download
to be installed otherwise there are warnings about a libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll missing when it comes to compiling the qt4 interface.

== Install MSYS ==

* Install 7-zip and Mozilla Firefox
* Install MSys 1.0.11-rc1 with the exe: http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=2435&filename=MSYS-1.0.11.exe
Accept Post Install: [y]
MinGW Installed? : [y]
path to MinGW: [c:/MinGW]
* Install MSys Developer Tooltkit: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/msysDTK-1.0.1.exe

== Notes from January 2010 ==

Now You can build VLC using GCC 4.4.0 and mingw runtime 3.17 using minor patches:
* Before installing of MSys (after installing of latest mingw) rename MinGW/bin/mingw32-make.exe to mingw/bin/make.exe. It will be renamed back by post install script.
* Install full GCC 4.4.0 binaries, and change MinGW\lib\gcc\mingw32\4.4.0\libstdc++.la (<code><nowiki>library_names=''</nowiki></code>) due to bug in latest MinGW.

=== AutoTools ===

Update your autoconf, automake and libtool by downloading and installing them, keeping in mind that you need to extract the content of the usr folder in C:\Msys
* http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS%20autoconf/autoconf-2.63-1/autoconf-2.63-1-msys-1.0.11-bin.tar.lzma/download
* http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS%20automake/automake-1.11-1/automake-1.11-1-msys-1.0.11-bin.tar.lzma/download
* http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS%20libtool/libtool-2.2.7a-1/libtool-2.2.7a-1-msys-1.0.11-bin.tar.lzma/download

You can also compile them according to:
* http://wiki.enlightenment.org/index.php/EFL_Windows_XP
* http://www.mingw.org/wiki/msys

== Install other tools ==

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/libcrypt-1.1_1-2-msys-1.0.11-dll-0.tar.lzma

Installing mingw-utils is recommended: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/mingw-utils-0.3.tar.gz, extract it to mingw/bin.

Installation of wget too: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/wget-1.9.1-mingwPORT.tar.bz2

Although this is a mingwPORT package it already has a precompiled wget on board.
Extract the .tar.bz2 file. It contains wget.exe in the bin subfolder, extract it to mingw/bin.

=== Install Git and checkout VLC ===

See [[Git_Windows]].

You can also retrieve the source code from [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-sources.html VideoLAN Project: VLC media player source code]

=== PKG-CONFIG ===

pkg-config is a mess, this is not NEWS... And you cannot compile it from Windows because of a few bugs...

Get Glib from GNOME: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/glib/2.18/glib_2.18.2-1_win32.zip
Unzip it to C:\Msys.

Get PKG-CONFIG from GNOME: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/pkg-config_0.23-3_win32.zip
and ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/pkg-config-dev_0.23-3_win32.zip
Unzip them to C:\Msys.

== Contribs ==

Take the precompiled contribs from:
http://people.videolan.org/~jb/Contribs/

Copy them in your ~
tar xvjf contrib-20090813-win32-bin-gcc-4.2.1-sjlj-runtime-3.15.2-only.tar.bz2 -C /
rm -v /usr/win32/bin/moc /usr/win32/bin/uic /usr/win32/bin/rcc

== Bootstrap VLC ==

cp -v /usr/win32/share/aclocal/* m4/
cp -v /usr/share/aclocal/* m4/
PATH=/usr/win32/bin:$PATH ./bootstrap
It should warn about gettext... Just ignore.

== Configure ==

sh extras/package/win32/configure-msys.sh
* If you downloaded a VLC source code tarball, retrieve ''configure-msys.sh'' and ''configure-common.sh'' from [[http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=summary vlc.git]] / extras / package / win32 /

== Compile ==

PATH=/usr/win32/bin:$PATH make
If you have Cygwin and others tools installed, try using a shorter PATH inside MSYS shell i.e.
$ echo $PATH
.:/usr/local/bin:/mingw/bin:/bin

==Creating self-contained packages==

Once the compilation is done, build self-contained VLC packages with the following "make" commands:

make package-win32-base

(This will create a subdirectory named vlc-x.x.x with all the binaries "stripped" without any debugging symbols).

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 will need to have NSIS installed in its default location for this to work).

* If you have permissions problems running make package-*, chmod 777 -R the vlc folder.
* If you have permissions problems running vlc.exe after packaging, rename or delete vlc.exe.manifest

== Random bootstrap, configure, and make errors ==

There have been reports of random msys errors during bootstrap, configure, and make. They usually don't repeat themselves between runs. Rule out that your mingw-msys installation is at fault by building in windows safe mode. Even if this works, it may then be more practical to try a cross-compilation build.

Win32CompileMSYSNew

2010-01-18T17:02:43Z

Akzhan:

== Introduction ==

MSYS is a helper environment for MinGW, the compiler chain for Windows based on GCC. It is the fastest way to build VLC natively on Windows.

This howto was re-created by [[User:J-b|Jean-Baptiste Kempf]] and updated in June 2009.

== Install MinGW ==

Use the main installer 5.1.4 found at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Automated%20MinGW%20Installer/MinGW%205.1.4/MinGW-5.1.4.exe/download

Go through the wizard, selecting "Downloading and Install" and using the candidate release. Select gcc, g++ and MinGW make. It should download automatically:
*mingwrt-3.15
*w32api-3.12
*binutils-2.18
*gcc-core-3.4.5
*gcc-g++-3.4.5
*mingw32-make-3.81

== Notes from December 2009 ==

Currently the MinGW installer adds mingwrt-3.17 which is not compatible with the precompiled contribs mentioned below. You should manually download and install 3.15 found at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW%20Runtime/mingwrt-3.15.2/mingwrt-3.15.2-mingw32-dev.tar.gz/download

The precompiled contribs also require gcc 4.2.1 found at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/GCC%20Version%204/Previous%20Testing_%20gcc-4.2.1-sjlj%20-2/gcc-core-4.2.1-sjlj-2.tar.gz/download
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/GCC%20Version%204/Previous%20Testing_%20gcc-4.2.1-sjlj%20-2/gcc-g%2B%2B-4.2.1-sjlj-2.tar.gz/download

After downloading and unpacking those two files you can switch MinGW to use the new version with
mv /mingw/bin/c++.exe /mingw/bin/c++.345.exe
mv /mingw/bin/g++.exe /mingw/bin/g++.345.exe
mv /mingw/bin/gcc.exe /mingw/bin/gcc.345.exe
mv /mingw/bin/g++-sjlj.exe /mingw/bin/g++.exe
mv /mingw/bin/c++-sjlj.exe /mingw/bin/c++.exe
mv /mingw/bin/gcc-sjlj.exe /mingw/bin/gcc.exe

It also needs
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/GCC%20Version%204/Current%20Release_%20gcc-4.4.0/gcc-core-4.4.0-mingw32-dll.tar.gz/download
to be installed otherwise there are warnings about a libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll missing when it comes to compiling the qt4 interface.

== Install MSYS ==

* Install 7-zip and Mozilla Firefox
* Install MSys 1.0.11-rc1 with the exe: http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=2435&filename=MSYS-1.0.11.exe
Accept Post Install: [y]
MinGW Installed? : [y]
path to MinGW: [c:/MinGW]
* Install MSys Developer Tooltkit: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/msysDTK-1.0.1.exe

== Notes from January 2010 ==

Now You can build VLC using GCC 4.4.0 and mingw runtime 3.17 using minor patches:
* Before installing of MSys (after installing of latest mingw) rename MinGW/bin/mingw32-make.exe to mingw/bin/make.exe. It will be renamed back by post install script.
* Install full GCC 4.4.0 binaries, and change MinGW\lib\gcc\mingw32\4.4.0\libstdc++.la (library_names='') due to bug in latest MinGW.

=== AutoTools ===

Update your autoconf, automake and libtool by downloading and installing them, keeping in mind that you need to extract the content of the usr folder in C:\Msys
* http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS%20autoconf/autoconf-2.63-1/autoconf-2.63-1-msys-1.0.11-bin.tar.lzma/download
* http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS%20automake/automake-1.11-1/automake-1.11-1-msys-1.0.11-bin.tar.lzma/download
* http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS%20libtool/libtool-2.2.7a-1/libtool-2.2.7a-1-msys-1.0.11-bin.tar.lzma/download

You can also compile them according to:
* http://wiki.enlightenment.org/index.php/EFL_Windows_XP
* http://www.mingw.org/wiki/msys

== Install other tools ==

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/libcrypt-1.1_1-2-msys-1.0.11-dll-0.tar.lzma

Installing mingw-utils is recommended: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/mingw-utils-0.3.tar.gz, extract it to mingw/bin.

Installation of wget too: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/wget-1.9.1-mingwPORT.tar.bz2

Although this is a mingwPORT package it already has a precompiled wget on board.
Extract the .tar.bz2 file. It contains wget.exe in the bin subfolder, extract it to mingw/bin.

=== Install Git and checkout VLC ===

See [[Git_Windows]].

You can also retrieve the source code from [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-sources.html VideoLAN Project: VLC media player source code]

=== PKG-CONFIG ===

pkg-config is a mess, this is not NEWS... And you cannot compile it from Windows because of a few bugs...

Get Glib from GNOME: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/glib/2.18/glib_2.18.2-1_win32.zip
Unzip it to C:\Msys.

Get PKG-CONFIG from GNOME: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/pkg-config_0.23-3_win32.zip
and ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/pkg-config-dev_0.23-3_win32.zip
Unzip them to C:\Msys.

== Contribs ==

Take the precompiled contribs from:
http://people.videolan.org/~jb/Contribs/

Copy them in your ~
tar xvjf contrib-20090813-win32-bin-gcc-4.2.1-sjlj-runtime-3.15.2-only.tar.bz2 -C /
rm -v /usr/win32/bin/moc /usr/win32/bin/uic /usr/win32/bin/rcc

== Bootstrap VLC ==

cp -v /usr/win32/share/aclocal/* m4/
cp -v /usr/share/aclocal/* m4/
PATH=/usr/win32/bin:$PATH ./bootstrap
It should warn about gettext... Just ignore.

== Configure ==

sh extras/package/win32/configure-msys.sh
* If you downloaded a VLC source code tarball, retrieve ''configure-msys.sh'' and ''configure-common.sh'' from [[http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=summary vlc.git]] / extras / package / win32 /

== Compile ==

PATH=/usr/win32/bin:$PATH make
If you have Cygwin and others tools installed, try using a shorter PATH inside MSYS shell i.e.
$ echo $PATH
.:/usr/local/bin:/mingw/bin:/bin

==Creating self-contained packages==

Once the compilation is done, build self-contained VLC packages with the following "make" commands:

make package-win32-base

(This will create a subdirectory named vlc-x.x.x with all the binaries "stripped" without any debugging symbols).

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 will need to have NSIS installed in its default location for this to work).

* If you have permissions problems running make package-*, chmod 777 -R the vlc folder.
* If you have permissions problems running vlc.exe after packaging, rename or delete vlc.exe.manifest

== Random bootstrap, configure, and make errors ==

There have been reports of random msys errors during bootstrap, configure, and make. They usually don't repeat themselves between runs. Rule out that your mingw-msys installation is at fault by building in windows safe mode. Even if this works, it may then be more practical to try a cross-compilation build.

Win32CompileMSYSNew

2010-01-14T17:43:02Z

Akzhan: /* Notes from December 2009 */ Fix movings

== Introduction ==

MSYS is a helper environment for MinGW, the compiler chain for Windows based on GCC. It is the fastest way to build VLC natively on Windows.

This howto was re-created by [[User:J-b|Jean-Baptiste Kempf]] and updated in June 2009.

== Install MinGW ==

Use the main installer 5.1.4 found at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Automated%20MinGW%20Installer/MinGW%205.1.4/MinGW-5.1.4.exe/download

Go through the wizard, selecting "Downloading and Install" and using the candidate release. Select gcc, g++ and MinGW make. It should download automatically:
*mingwrt-3.15
*w32api-3.12
*binutils-2.18
*gcc-core-3.4.5
*gcc-g++-3.4.5
*mingw32-make-3.81

== Notes from December 2009 ==

Currently the MinGW installer adds mingwrt-3.17 which is not compatible with the precompiled contribs mentioned below. You should manually download and install 3.15 found at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW%20Runtime/mingwrt-3.15.2/mingwrt-3.15.2-mingw32-dev.tar.gz/download

The precompiled contribs also require gcc 4.2.1 found at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/GCC%20Version%204/Previous%20Testing_%20gcc-4.2.1-sjlj%20-2/gcc-core-4.2.1-sjlj-2.tar.gz/download
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/GCC%20Version%204/Previous%20Testing_%20gcc-4.2.1-sjlj%20-2/gcc-g%2B%2B-4.2.1-sjlj-2.tar.gz/download

After downloading and unpacking those two files you can switch MinGW to use the new version with
mv /mingw/bin/c++.exe /mingw/bin/c++.345.exe
mv /mingw/bin/g++.exe /mingw/bin/g++.345.exe
mv /mingw/bin/gcc.exe /mingw/bin/gcc.345.exe
mv /mingw/bin/g++-sjlj.exe /mingw/bin/g++.exe
mv /mingw/bin/c++-sjlj.exe /mingw/bin/c++.exe
mv /mingw/bin/gcc-sjlj.exe /mingw/bin/gcc.exe

It also needs
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/GCC%20Version%204/Current%20Release_%20gcc-4.4.0/gcc-core-4.4.0-mingw32-dll.tar.gz/download
to be installed otherwise there are warnings about a libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll missing when it comes to compiling the qt4 interface.

== Install MSYS ==

* Install 7-zip and Mozilla Firefox
* Install MSys 1.0.11-rc1 with the exe: http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=2435&filename=MSYS-1.0.11.exe
Accept Post Install: [y]
MinGW Installed? : [y]
path to MinGW: [c:/MinGW]
* Install MSys Developer Tooltkit: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/msysDTK-1.0.1.exe

=== AutoTools ===

Update your autoconf, automake and libtool by downloading and installing them, keeping in mind that you need to extract the content of the usr folder in C:\Msys
* http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS%20autoconf/autoconf-2.63-1/autoconf-2.63-1-msys-1.0.11-bin.tar.lzma/download
* http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS%20automake/automake-1.11-1/automake-1.11-1-msys-1.0.11-bin.tar.lzma/download
* http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS%20libtool/libtool-2.2.7a-1/libtool-2.2.7a-1-msys-1.0.11-bin.tar.lzma/download

You can also compile them according to:
* http://wiki.enlightenment.org/index.php/EFL_Windows_XP
* http://www.mingw.org/wiki/msys

== Install other tools ==

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/libcrypt-1.1_1-2-msys-1.0.11-dll-0.tar.lzma

Installing mingw-utils is recommended: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/mingw-utils-0.3.tar.gz, extract it to mingw/bin.

Installation of wget too: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/wget-1.9.1-mingwPORT.tar.bz2

Although this is a mingwPORT package it already has a precompiled wget on board.
Extract the .tar.bz2 file. It contains wget.exe in the bin subfolder, extract it to mingw/bin.

=== Install Git and checkout VLC ===

See [[Git_Windows]].

You can also retrieve the source code from [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-sources.html VideoLAN Project: VLC media player source code]

=== PKG-CONFIG ===

pkg-config is a mess, this is not NEWS... And you cannot compile it from Windows because of a few bugs...

Get Glib from GNOME: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/glib/2.18/glib_2.18.2-1_win32.zip
Unzip it to C:\Msys.

Get PKG-CONFIG from GNOME: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/pkg-config_0.23-3_win32.zip
and ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/pkg-config-dev_0.23-3_win32.zip
Unzip them to C:\Msys.

== Contribs ==

Take the precompiled contribs from:
http://people.videolan.org/~jb/Contribs/

Copy them in your ~
tar xvjf contrib-20090813-win32-bin-gcc-4.2.1-sjlj-runtime-3.15.2-only.tar.bz2 -C /
rm -v /usr/win32/bin/moc /usr/win32/bin/uic /usr/win32/bin/rcc

== Bootstrap VLC ==

cp -v /usr/win32/share/aclocal/* m4/
cp -v /usr/share/aclocal/* m4/
PATH=/usr/win32/bin:$PATH ./bootstrap
It should warn about gettext... Just ignore.

== Configure ==

sh extras/package/win32/configure-msys.sh
* If you downloaded a VLC source code tarball, retrieve ''configure-msys.sh'' and ''configure-common.sh'' from [[http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=summary vlc.git]] / extras / package / win32 /

== Compile ==

PATH=/usr/win32/bin:$PATH make
If you have Cygwin and others tools installed, try using a shorter PATH inside MSYS shell i.e.
$ echo $PATH
.:/usr/local/bin:/mingw/bin:/bin

==Creating self-contained packages==

Once the compilation is done, build self-contained VLC packages with the following "make" commands:

make package-win32-base

(This will create a subdirectory named vlc-x.x.x with all the binaries "stripped" without any debugging symbols).

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 will need to have NSIS installed in its default location for this to work).

* If you have permissions problems running make package-*, chmod 777 -R the vlc folder.
* If you have permissions problems running vlc.exe after packaging, rename or delete vlc.exe.manifest

== Random bootstrap, configure, and make errors ==

There have been reports of random msys errors during bootstrap, configure, and make. They usually don't repeat themselves between runs. Rule out that your mingw-msys installation is at fault by building in windows safe mode. Even if this works, it may then be more practical to try a cross-compilation build.