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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.

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


== 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:  http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/pkg-config-0.23-2.zip 
Unzip it 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

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

There have been reports of random msys errors during bootstrap, configure, and make. You can tell they are random errors because they usually don't repeat themselves between runs. To rule out that your mingw-msys installation is at fault, try building in windows safe mode. But even if this works, it may then be more practical to try a cygwin or cross-compilation build.