Win32CompileMSYSOld

Cygwin environment for Windows from http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/msys-compile.txt

MSYS/MinGW environment under Windows (XP/2000/2003)

TODO: GPAC, NSIS, PKG-Config, more than just setting up the environment...

THIS ARTICLE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION!!!

MSYS/MinGW environment

Setting up a working MSYS/MinGW environment requires the following:

1. MSYS installation
2. Updating MSYS
3. MSYS DTK (Developer Tool Kit)
4. Updating bash (shell)
5. MinGW installation
6. Configuration of fstab
7. Creation of home folder

Note that the following generic resource locations were used to download the appropriate packages (and more recent versions might be obtained from here):

MSYS/MinGW related

nasm

SDL

zip

pkg-config

sed

Minimal SYStem (MSYS) installation

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/MSYS-1.0.11-2004.04.30-1.exe

Perform a basic installation into C:\msys

Do not continue with the post install (this will be done later).

Update MSYS

Update MSYS to a more recent version

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/MSYS-1.0.11-20060807.tar.bz2

Extract the .tar.bz2 file, it contains the following files:

mount.exe
msys-1.0.dll
ps.exe

Copy the files to:

C:\msys\bin

This will overwrite/update the version(s) used in MSYS.

MSYS DTK (Developer Tool Kit)

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/msysDTK-1.0.1.exe

Perform a basic installation into C:\msys

Updating BASH

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/bash-3.1-MSYS-1.0.11-snapshot.tar.bz2

Extract the .tar.bz2 file, in the bin subfolder it contains the following files:

bash.exe
sh.exe

Copy the files to:

C:\msys\bin

This will overwrite/update the sh.exe version used in MSYS

MinGW

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/MinGW-5.0.3.exe

Select the download and install option.

Do not install with "Current" MinGW packages but select "Candidate".

Select the following components to install:

MinGW base tools (autoselected)
g++ compiler

Perform the installation into the default destination:

C:\msys\mingw

The following versions (or possibly newer) of the candidate packages will be downloaded and installed:

mingw-runtime-3.10.tar.gz
w32api-3.7.tar.gz
binutils-2.16.91-20060119-1.tar.gz
gcc-core-3.4.5-20060117-1.tar.gz
gcc-g++-3.4.5-20060117-1.tar.gz

(It is also possible to get these packages seperately and extract them to C:\msys\mingw)

Configuring fstab

The folder C:\msys\etc contains the following file:

fstab.sample

Copy the file to:

fstab

Open the file with a text editor and change the path value for the mingw mount point from:

c:/mingw to c:/msys/mingw

Save the file.

Starting MSYS

The first time MSYS is started, a "home" folder is created, for example:

C:\msys\home\Administrator

Installing additional packages

The following packages are required for building VLC

1. Wget
2. Iconv
3. Gettext
4. MinGW utils
5. Libtool
6. Autoconf
7. Automake
8. Zip
9. Coreutils

WGet

Wget is required for building from the "extras/contrib" or mingwPORT packages.

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 the following file in the bin subfolder:

wget.exe

Copy the file to:

C:\msys\mingw\bin

Iconv (GNU libiconv)

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/libiconv-1.8.0-2003.02.01-1.exe

Perform a basic installation into the default destination Folder

C:\msys\mingw

Updating Iconv

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/libiconv-1.10-mingwPORT.tar.bz2

Extract the .tar.bz2 file. Copy the contents into your home folder in MSYS

C:\msys\home\Administrator (example)

Start the MSYS shell and do the following commands:

cd libiconv-1.10-mingwPORT/libiconv-1.10/mingwPORT

mkdir -p /usr/src/libiconv-1.10

./mingwPORT.sh 

Follow the default installation.

If all went well all the appropriate libraries should be installed/built and placed into c:/msys/mingw/lib.

NOTE: For some unknown reason usage of Iconv fails when 1.10 is installed directly without having installed 1.8.0.

Gettext

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/gettext-0.11.5-2003.02.01-1.exe

Perform a basic installation into the default destination Folder

C:\msys\mingw

MinGW Utils

The unix2dos tool from this package is required during the "make package" process of VLC for some conversion of txt files.

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

Extract the .tar.gz file. it contains the following file in the bin subfolder:

unix2dos.exe

Copy the file to:

C:\msys\mingw\bin

Libtool

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/libtool-1.5.22-mingwPORT.tar.bz2

Extract the .tar.bz2 file. Copy the contents into your home folder in MSYS

C:\msys\home\Administrator (example)

Start the MSYS shell and do the following commands:

cd libtool-1.5.22-mingwPORT/libtool-1.5.22/mingwPORT

mkdir -p /usr/src/libtool-1.5.22

./mingwPORT.sh 

Follow the default installation.

If all went well all the appropriate libraries should be installed/built and placed into c:/msys/mingw/lib.

Autoconf

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/autoconf-2.59-mingwPORT.tar.bz2

Extract the .tar.bz2 file. Copy the contents into your home folder in MSYS

C:\msys\home\Administrator (example)

Start the MSYS shell and do the following commands:

cd autoconf-2.59-mingwPORT/autoconf-2.59/mingwPORT

mkdir -p /usr/src/autoconf-2.59

./mingwPORT.sh 

Follow the default installation.

If all went well all the appropriate libraries should be installed/built and placed into c:/msys/mingw/lib.

Updating autoconf from contrib

VLC 0.8.6 and later (including 0.9.0 svn/development) require an autoconf version of 2.60 or greater.

If during the configure process the following msg appears it's time to update:

"Hey, your autoconf is quite old. Update it".

Open your MSYS shell:

cd vlc-trunk/extras/contrib

./bootstrap

cd src

make .autoconf

Automake

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/automake-1.9.5-mingwPORT.tar.bz2

Extract the .tar.bz2 file. Copy the contents into your home folder in MSYS

C:\msys\home\Administrator (example)

Start the MSYS shell and do the following commands:

cd automake-1.9.5-mingwPORT/automake-1.9.5/mingwPORT

mkdir -p /usr/src/automake-1.9.5

./mingwPORT.sh 

Follow the default installation.

If all went well all the appropriate libraries should be installed/built and placed into c:/msys/mingw/lib.

Zip

Zip is required for making .zip packages...

http://www.info-zip.org/

ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/WIN32/zip232xN.zip

Extract the .zip. It contains the following file in the bin subfolder:

zip.exe

Copy the file to:

C:\msys\bin

Coreutils

The whoami tool from this package is required for "svn builds".

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/coreutils-5.97-MSYS-1.0.11-snapshot.tar.bz2

Extract the .tar.bz2 file. it contains the following file in the bin subfolder:

whoami.exe

Copy the file to:

C:\msys\mingw\bin

Optional packages

GDB (optional)

GDB is used for debugging purposes.

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/gdb-6.3-2.exe

Perform an installation into the folder

C:\msys\mingw

ZLib (optional)

Zlib is a required package in combination with the Gpac package for .avs and .mp4 output support when building the x264 library.

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/zlib-1.2.3-mingwPORT-1.tar.bz2

Extract the .tar.bz2 file. Copy the contents into your home folder in MSYS

C:\msys\home\Administrator (example)

Start the MSYS shell and do the following commands:

cd zlib-1.2.3-mingwPORT/zlib-1.2.3/mingwPORT

mkdir -p /usr/src/zlib-1.2.3

./mingwPORT.sh 

Follow the default installation.

If all went well all the appropriate libraries should be installed/built and placed into c:/msys/mingw.

Updating SDL from mingwPORT (optional)

SDL support is required when building ffplay from the FFmpeg package.

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/SDL-1.2.8-mingwPORT.tar.bz2

Extract the .tar.bz2 file. Copy the contents into your home folder in MSYS

C:\msys\home\SDL-1.2.8-mingwPORT (example)

Start the MSYS shell and do the following commands:

cd SDL-1.2.8-minwPORT/SDL-1.2.8/mingwPORT

mkdir -p /usr/src/SDL-1.2.8

./mingwPORT.sh 

Follow the default installation.

If all went well all the appropriate libraries should be installed/built and placed into /usr/local/lib.

Updating SDL (optional)

http://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL-1.2.11.tar.gz

Extract the .tar.gz file. Copy the contents into your home folder in MSYS

C:\msys\home\SDL-1.2.11 (example)

Start the MSYS shell and do the following commands:

cd SDL-1.2.11

./configure

make

make install

If all went well all the appropriate libraries should be installed/built and placed into /usr/local/lib.

Nasm (optional)

The Netwide assembler (nasm) is required for building the x264 library.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6208

Download the latest win32 binaries:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/nasm/nasm-0.98.39-win32.zip?download

Extract the .zip. It contains the following file in the bin subfolder:

nasmw.exe

Rename the file to nasm.exe and copy it to the following location:

C:\msys\mingw\bin

GPAC (optional)

GPAC is required for building the x264 library with mp4 output support.

Start the MSYS shell and do the following commands:

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@gpac.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gpac co -P gpac

This will download the latest GPAC version from CVS.

cd gpac

./configure

make lib

TODO: copy GPAC files to appropriate folder automagically.

x264 (optional)

Start the MSYS shell and do the following commands:

svn co svn://svn.videolan.org/x264/trunk x264-trunk

cd x264-trunk

For generic purposes:

./configure

make

For VLC:

./configure --prefix=/usr/win32

make

make install

This will copy the appropriate libs and .h to the prefix folder which will also be used by VLC for building the contrib

For compiling "stand-alone with mp4 output support" (this requires GPAC):

./configure --enable-mp4-output

make

If you wish to compile FFmpeg stand-alone with x264 support then also do this

make install

This will copy the appropriate libs and .h files to the default /usr/lib and /usr/include

FFmpeg (optional)

Start the MSYS shell and do the following commands:

svn co svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg-trunk

cd ffmpeg-trunk

For generic purposes:

./configure --enable-mingw32 --enable-memalign-hack \
   --enable-gpl --enable-pp

make

For compiling with x264 support:

(This assumes you did a "make install" for x264 which will have copied the appropriate lib and .h files into lib/include).

./configure --enable-mingw32 --enable-memalign-hack \
   --extra-cflags=-I/usr/local/include \
   --extra-ldflags=-L/usr/local/lib \
   --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-x264

make

For compiling into VLC:

(This does not need x264 lib in FFmpeg since VLC uses that directly, also prefix and extra flags are used to point to the "contrib" folder):

./configure --enable-mingw32 --enable-memalign-hack \
   --extra-cflags=-I/usr/win32/include \
   --extra-ldflags=-L/usr/win32/lib \
   --prefix=/usr/win32 \
   --enable-faac --enable-mp3lame --enable-gpl --enable-pp

make

make install-libs install-headers

This will copy all the appropriate libs and .h files into usr/win32/include and lib so they can be used by VLC compilation.

FAQ

Various troubleshooting issues..

Make .qt4 from extras/contrib

Fails on:

checking for libmpeg2.a in /home/Administrator/vlc-trunk/./extras/contrib/src/mpeg2dec... no
configure: error: cannot cd to /home/Administrator/vlc-trunk/./extras/contrib/src/mpeg2dec

Workaround: configure with

--without-contrib

Make package-win32-zip

Fails on:

sed -i 's%share/osdmenu%osdmenu%g' ./vlc-0.9.0-svn/osdmenu/*.cfg
sed: invalid option -- i

Workaround: compile sed 4.09 (any newer versions fail to compile on missing alloca)

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/sed/sed-4.0.9.tar.gz

use the newer sed version in c:\msys\mingw\bin and rename the old one to sed3.exe or something

ONLY use the 4.09 sed to do a make package-win32-zip, it will fail to compile VLC source (so after it finishes, you have to copy the old version back again).

So in conclusion:

make package-win32-zip fails with sed 3.02 on -i
make autoconf fails with sed 4.09 on -E
sed 4.10+ requires glib
glib requires pkgconfig but pkgconfig requires glib?!

Warnings during configure

Using contrib from 20061015 still a lot of warnings during configure:

checking dynamic linker characteristics... ./configure: line 14697: f77: command not found
./configure: line 14825: f77: command not found

configure: WARNING: libshout library not found
configure: WARNING: MusicBrainz library not found
configure: WARNING: CD Reading and information library not found
configure: WARNING: VCD information library not found
configure: WARNING: new enough libcddb not found. CDDB access disabled

checking for mpcdec/mpcdec.h... yes
configure: WARNING: only static linking is available, you must provide a gme-tree

./configure: line 54814: --exists: command not found

configure: WARNING: Probe disc disabled because ok libcdio library not found
configure: WARNING: VCD information on Probe disc disabled because ok
libvcdinfo not found
configure: WARNING: QT4 library not found
configure: WARNING: DAAP library not found
configure: WARNING: avahi-client library not found

Can not write to output file with unix2dos

unix2dos: converting file ./vlc-0.9.0-svn/AUTHORS.txt to DOS format ...
unix2dos: can not write to output file
unix2dos: problems converting file ./vlc-0.9.0-svn/AUTHORS.txt
unix2dos: converting file ./vlc-0.9.0-svn/MAINTAINERS.txt to DOS format ...
unix2dos: converting file ./vlc-0.9.0-svn/THANKS.txt to DOS format ...
unix2dos: can not write to output file

Version

20060926 Initial version

20060928 Reworked layout

20061011 Added troubleshooting section

20061119 Added FFmpeg and x264. Removed unicode warning from troubleshooting

20070113 WIKI version