[mythtv-users] Compiling 0.25/trunk on Windows

[Bob Cottingham]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Xander Victory <lexvictory at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On 15/03/2012 8:51 PM, Bob Cottingham wrote:
>>
>> The error is:
>> D:\Downloads\mythtv-test\mythtv-windows-x86-v0.25-beta-28-gf1937ea.tar.bz2.tar.bz2.tar\mythtv-windows-x86-v0.25-beta-28-gf1937ea-tar-bz2-tar-bz2\bin\libmythavutil-50.dll
>> is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error. Try
>> installing the program again using the original installation media or
>> contact your system administrator or the software vendor for support.
>>
>> This same error appeared on two different Windows 7 systems and with
>> two separate downloads of the files.  I'm happy to help you test
>> builds.
>
> Dang! Tar isn't dereferencing properly (no idea why) - the file it is
> complaining about is a symlink on linux. 7zip doesnt extract them
> properly on Windows.
> Was 7zip or another program used?
>
> If you're able to untar on a linux system and access over samba it
> should work. If that's not possible I've reuploaded the archive
> compressed with 7zip.

I used 7zip.  I didn't try it on my linux system, but simply
downloaded the newly compressed archive and it worked fine.  Sounds
like you have it all worked out now!

Bob