Commit c93f613b authored by Gildas Bazin's avatar Gildas Bazin

* INSTALL.win32: removed note about running in administrator mode to play
   a DVD. Updated doc about using cygwin for compiling.
parent 4b4a8f1d
......@@ -16,8 +16,6 @@ disable the GUI. You will end-up with a vlc.log file in your current directory.
If you want to play a DVD, run vlc and click on the Disc option in the
interface. You then have to type your drive letter in the 'Device name'
box (eg. 'D' if this is the letter for your dvdrom drive).
( !WARNING: you have to be in administrator mode (for now) on Win2k/XP or the
DVD won't play. )
Building VideoLAN Client from the source code
=============================================
......@@ -63,6 +61,19 @@ You must also not forget to install the extra development packages if you want
to build the DirectX, GTK and SDL plugins.
(http://www.videolan.org/vlc/windows.html)
- compiling natively on Windoze with cygwin:
You will need to download and run the setup.exe app from cygwin's web site
(www.cygwin.com).
I'm personnaly running the experimental distribution (and gcc-3.2) with the
exception of the autoconf tool for which I'm using the autoconf-devel-2.52-4
package (I had problems with 2.53a-1). You will need to make sure you install
at least the gcc-mingw, mingw-runtime and w32api packages.
Also note that currently, even when using the -mno-cygwin option, the final
executable requires cygwin1.dll even if none of the objects linked to form the
executable does depend on cygwin1.dll itself. I don't know yet why the linker
plays this trick...
NOTE: by default, the GTK package is configured to be installed in
/usr/local/gtk-win32, if you want to change this path, then you need to edit
......@@ -132,7 +143,7 @@ something like this:
If you want to use the emulation layer, then just omit the CC="gcc -mno-cygwin"
line.
Note: when using the --with-dvdcss-tree you need to compile the tree
Note: when using the --with-dvdcss-tree you need to compile the libdvdcss tree
beforehand.
Building VideoLAN Client
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