Unix build instructions

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./configure

make

make install

If you install from CVS you'll have to run ./bootstrap first

Building for win32

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There are at least three ways to do it:

- natively on Windows using Microsoft VC++ and the vc++ project

  included in this distribution.

- natively on Windows using MSYS + MINGW (www.mingw.org) (MSYS is a

  minimal build environnement to compile unixish projects under

  windows. It provides all the common unix tools like sh, gmake...)

- or on Linux, using the mingw32 cross-compiler

Building using MSYS + MINGW on windows

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First you will need to download and install the latest MSYS (version

1.0.7 as of now) and MINGW. The installation is really easy. Begin

with the MSYS auto-installer and once this is done, extract MINGW into

c:\msys\1.0\mingw. You also have to remember to remove the make

utility included with MINGW as it conflicts with the one from MSYS

(just rename or remove c:\msys\1.0\mingw\bin\make.exe).

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/MSYS-1.0.7-i686-2002.04.24-1.exe

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/MinGW-1.1.tar.gz

Then you can build the package using:

# ./configure

# make

Building using the mingw32 cross-compiler

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You need to install mingw32 first. For Debian GNU/Linux users, there

is a mingw32 package. Otherwise you might get it from the mingw site

at http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml.

The videolan project also keeps precompiled mingw32 binaries at

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/windows.html . If you install these,

you'll have to set your PATH accordingly to include

/usr/local/cross-tools/bin too.

The build should then proceed using something like:

# CC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc ./configure --host=i586-mingw32msvc

# make