* INSTALL.wince: preliminary build instructions for the WinCE port of VLC.

INSTALL.wince

+$Id$
+
+INSTALL file for the WinCE version of the VLC media player
+
+
+Building VLC from the source code
+=================================
+
+If you want to build VLC from sources, you can do it in several ways:
+
+- On GNU/Linux, using the wince gcc cross-compiler.
+  (Right now we only provide an ARM version of the cross-compiler)
+
+- Natively on Windows, using Microsoft Embedded Visual C++.
+  Even though we provide some evc project files with vlc, this method is
+  advised only if you just want to experiment/play with some basic
+  functionality in vlc. The reason for this is that vlc depends on a lot of
+  3rd party libraries and building them in EVC is not convenient and
+  sometimes even impossible.
+
+Getting the right compiler tools
+================================
+
+You will need to download our wince gcc cross-compiler package:
+http://www.videolan.org/pub/testing/wince/wince-arm-gcc4.0.0-cvs-linux-crosscompiler.tar.bz2.
+Extract this package in your root directory (everything will be extracted in
+/usr/local/wince/cross-tools).
+
+The source code for this cross-compiler in also available at the same location.
+
+Getting the additional libraries
+=================================
+
+VLC depends on other libraries to provide some features like ac3 audio decoding
+or mpeg4 video decoding, etc...
+
+Depending on your needs you will have to compile/install some or all of these
+external libraries.
+
+They can be found here (source code):
+http://download.videolan.org/pub/testing/contrib/
+
+We also provide a package with all the libraries already compiled so it is
+actually really easy to compile a full-featured version of vlc:
+http://download.videolan.org/pub/testing/wince/contrib-20050220-wince-xscale-bin.tar.bz2 (Check out fo more recent versions at the same location). 
+
+All you need to do is extract it in your root directory (the include files
+and libraries will be put in /usr/local/wince/contrib-xscale).
+You can do this with the following command: 
+
+  tar xjvf contrib-20050220-wince-xscale-bin.tar.bz2 -C /
+
+Please note the "-C /".
+
+A complete list of the libraries on which we depend can be found here:
+http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/
+
+Configuring the build
+=====================
+
+Once you've got all the files you need in place, you need to configure the
+build with the `./configure' script.
+
+I'll assume that you are using the pre-compiled 3rd party libraries I'm
+providing and that they are in /usr/local/wince/contrib-xscale.
+
+Use something along those lines:
+
+./bootstrap &&
+PATH=/usr/local/wince/cross-tools/bin:$PATH \
+CFLAGS="-D__stdcall= -D_OFF_T_ -I/usr/local/wince/cross-tools/include" \
+CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I/usr/local/wince/contrib-xscale/include" \
+LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/wince/cross-tools/lib" \
+LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/wince/contrib-xscale/lib" \
+CC="arm-wince-pe-gcc -mcpu=xscale" \
+   ../configure --host=arm-wince-pe --target=arm-wince-pe \
+    --build=i686-linux --prefix=/usr/local/wince \
+    --disable-sdl --disable-gtk --disable-dvdnav --disable-dvdread \
+    --disable-nls --disable-sout --disable-vlm --disable-wxwindows \
+    --disable-a52 --disable-libmpeg2 --disable-freetype --disable-fribidi \
+    --disable-mad --disable-plugins \
+    --with-freetype-config-path=/usr/local/wince-xscale/bin \
+    --with-fribidi-config-path=/usr/local/wince-xscale/bin \
+    --enable-tremor --enable-faad
+
+See `./configure --help' for more information.
+
+Actually Compiling the VLC source
+=================================
+
+Once configured, to build VLC, just run:
+  PATH=/usr/local/wince/cross-tools/bin:$PATH make
+
+Once the compilation is done, you can build self-contained VLC packages with
+the following 'make' rules:
+
+  make package-win32-base
+   will create a subdirectory named vlc-x.x.x with all the binaries
+   'stripped' (ie. without any debugging symbols).
+
+  make package-win32-zip
+   Same as above but will package the directory in a zip file.
+
+Well done, now you're ready to use VLC!
+=======================================