[GEM-dev] compilation with msys2 on w64

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Am 26. Juli 2019 12:58:02 MESZ schrieb Patrice Colet <colet.patrice at free.fr>:
>Hello,
>
>I'm attempting to add a ffmpeg film plugin with a windows 64 machine...
>
>First I'd like to thank umläute about this wiki page: 
>https://github.com/umlaeute/Gem/wiki/How-to-build-Gem-on-Microsoft-Windows-(MINGW)
>
>
>
>It seems mingw packages has some improvements since this howto has been
>
>written...

the most up-to-date "documentation" is probably in .git-ci/gitlab-iem.yml

this is the actual code used to (auto)build Gem...


>but is disabled when [pix_video] is loaded. I don't why it is
>disabled...

did you read the videoVLC section in the wiki? iirc you need to define some envvars to help libvlc find its decoding plugins.

>
>And in mingw32 the VLC plugin doesn't load at pd starting because
>runDLL 
>don't find some vlc libs.


AFAIK, recent vlc for windows only comes as 64bit binaries.

>
>  After installing Gem, I go to pd/extra folder and add all the 
>depencies with this bash script:
>
>#!/bin/bash

instead, use .git-ci/localdeps.win.sh



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