> 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/ > _______________________________________________ > live-devel mailing list > live-devel@lists.live555.com > http://lists.live555.com/mailman/listinfo/live-devel _______________________________________________ live-devel mailing list live-devel@lists.live555.com http://lists.live555.com/mailman/listinfo/live-devel
