View source for Win32CompileMSYSTroubleShooting

This is a list of various errors that have occurred "over the years" during [[Win32CompileMSYSNew|building VLC with windows]], with their resolutions.   Of course, if it's not here, google is your friend.

"unix2dos" command not found:  this meant "you forgot to install mingw-utils"

*It doesn't link, and complains about missing gcc symbols: You missed this line in the instructions:

Use text editor to change MinGW\lib\gcc\mingw32\4.4.0\libstdc++.la file (line should be library_names='') due to bug in latest MinGW.'' 

Originally, there was apparently a bug with 4.4.0 GCC (not 4.4.1), fixed thus (except that in reality, you must use TDM, not vanilla GCC, because you need sljl exception handling):

''Then, update Mingw GCC to 4.4.0 by downloading http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/GCC%20Version%204/gcc-full-4.4.0-mingw32-bin-2.tar.lzma/download and extracting it to C:\Mingw (replacing files when asked). Finally, you'll gave to fix the file C:\MinGW\lib\gcc\mingw32\4.4.0\libstdc++.la by opening it and changing the line defining library_names so that it reads <code><nowiki>library_names=''</nowiki></code>''

*Compilation stops early, after configure was complaining about mismatched quotes:

Check the VLC_COMPILE_HOST variable in your config.h - if it's ''Option f is not valid'' then ''hostname -f'' fails (on Windows, there is no such option as -f). In configure.ac change 
<pre>AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(VLC_COMPILE_HOST, "`hostname -f 2&gt; /dev/null || hostname`", [host which ran configure])</pre> 
to 
<pre>AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(VLC_COMPILE_HOST, "`hostname`", [host which ran configure])</pre> 
*If compile complains about a config.h and pthread.h not found problem, just delete config.h
*If building self-contained packages fails with ''make: zip: Command not found'' then download the following file and extract it to C:\Msys\1.0 :
*http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/m/project/mi/mingw/MSYS/zip/zip-3.0-1/zip-3.0-1-msys-1.0.14-bin.tar.lzma
*If building self-contained packages fails with ''make: 7z: Command not found'' then copy 7z.exe from C:\Program Files\7-Zip in to C:\Msys\1.0\bin
*If building self-contained packages fails with ''Error: cannot locate makensis tool'' then use:
<pre>PATH=/c/Program\ Files/NSIS/:$PATH make package-win32</pre>