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!!!
Contents
Introduction
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):
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-1.10-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.
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...
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
