 Today I'm trying to setup CygWin to build VLC from the source. Again, the experience is not as good as I expected. But here, I'm spending most of my time downloading and installing necessary development packages. At first, I had troubles in picking up a download site. I was unlucky on the first two attempts; one was extremely slow, the other dropped the connection on me after I've spent half hour selecting packages! Then I started the usual build procedure. Again, I was unlucky on the first two attempts due to the missing packages. First time, I had to add the libtool package. Second time, I had to add the CVS package. It took me an hour to finally figure out it's caused by the missing CVS! Here was the error message from the bootstrap command: The good thing is, no further troubles down the load. No source code changes, no tricky business. So between CygWin and MinGW, I will choose CygWin as my main cross platform development environment. I especially like its X windows port. I can even run some cool X applications on my WinXP. A pleasent surprise.
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