Win32CompileMSYSNew

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.

Install MinGW

Use the main installer 5.1.4 found at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435&package_id=240780

Use the candidate release, and select gcc, g++ and MinGW make. It should download:

• mingwrt-3.15
• w32api-3.12
• binutils-2.18
• gcc-core-3.4.5
• gcc-g++-3.4.5
• mingw32-make-3.81

Install MSYS

• Install MSys 1.0.10 with the exe: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/MSYS-1.0.10.exe
• Install MSys Developer Tooltkit: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/msysDTK-1.0.1.exe
• Update to 1.0.11, untar it in your msys install:

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/msysCORE-1.0.11-2007.01.19-1.tar.bz2 or http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/msysCORE-1.0.11-20080826.tar.gz (recommended on 64bits)

• Update your autoconf, automake and libtool by downloading and installing them.

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/autoconf2.5-2.61-1-bin.tar.bz2 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/automake1.10-1.10-1-bin.tar.bz2 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/libtool1.5-1.5.25a-1-bin.tar.bz2

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

Installing mingw-utils is recommended: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/mingw-utils-0.3.tar.gz

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

Download Git on http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/

Launch Git bash:

cd /c
mkdir VLC
cd VLC
git clone git://git.videolan.org/vlc.git

launch MSys again cd /c/VLC/vlc

GCrypt

You need gcrypt to bootstrap VLC. It might be stupid, but deal with it.

cd extras/contrib
./bootstrap
cd src
make .gcrypt

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.

Get PKG-CONFIG from GNOME: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/pkg-config-0.23-2.zip Unzip it too.

Bootstrap VLC

This is a HACK. Don't do this at HOME. cp extras/contrib/share/aclocal/* m4/ cp /usr/share/aclocal/* m4/ ./bootstrap It should warn about gettext... Just ignore.

Contribs

Take the precompiled contribs: http://people.videolan.org/~jb/Contribs/contrib-20090219-win32-bin-gcc-4.2.1-sjlj-runtime-3.13-only.tar.bz2

Copy them in your ~

tar xvjf contrib-20090219-win32-bin-gcc-4.2.1-sjlj-runtime-3.13-only.tar.bz2 -C /
rm /usr/win32/bin/moc /usr/win32/bin/uic /usr/win32/bin/rcc

Configure

vim extras/package/win32/configure-msys.sh

Change CC to gcc and CXX to g++, I recommend to --disable-nls too

sh extras/package/win32/configure-msys.sh

Compile

make