[Live-devel] Live555 Compilation for VLC in cygwin

[Guy Bonneau]

> What's puzzling me here is that the VLC people use Cygwin all 
> the time to build VLC (including the "LIVE555 Streaming 
> Media" libraries) for Windows.  So they must have a 
> well-established procedure for doing this.  

My understanding is that they use the Cygwin development tools 
to create an executable that doesn't depends on Cygwin DLL. I
mean they don't use the Posix layer of Cygwin. So this seems to be a 
cross-compilation of a "mingw executable" on the Cygwin platform.

There is a FAQ section on the minGW FAQ about this: here is an
Excerpt: 

...For those who would like to use the Cygwin environment 
for development, yet generate non-Cygwin-dependant executables, 
a much easier option to "-mno-cygwin" does exist...

What procedure are using the VLC team? Well as I said previously
the documentation is not clear on this. Do they change the
config.cygwin like I did? Do they use their own makefile?
I really don't know. Just hope that what I found could help
other if they want to "cross-compile" live555 on Cygwin for
VLC Media Player.

Regards
Guy Bonneau


I suggest that 
> you look more into this; I doubt that you really have to 
> conjour up your own configuration file for doing this.
> -- 
> 
> Ross Finlayson
> Live Networks, Inc.
> http://www.live555.com/
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