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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

==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.