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=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

=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.

=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

=Gcrypt=
You need gcrypt to bootstrap VLC. It might be stupid, but deal with it.
 cd extras/contrib
 ./bootstrap
 cd src
 make .gcrypt

=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.

=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