Re: Using VLC 4.0.0 on WSL2 Ubuntu 25.04 with wayland

Jean-Yves Baudy <[email protected]> Thu, 26 Jun 2025 23:21:42 +0200
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Hello,
It is my work PC I can't install VLC in native Win11 OS 😔.

Le jeu. 26 juin 2025 à 17:51, Fatih UzunoÄŸlu <[email protected]> a écrit :

> > Note that another workaround would be using the environment variable
> `QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb` to use xwayland
>
> And of course, maybe it is obvious in this case as WSL2 is meant to run on
> Windows but, the ultimate workaround would be using the native Windows
> build.
>
> If you are a user, maybe you are not aware (as I have seen on the internet
> some people are not), but there are nightly builds here (
> https://artifacts.videolan.org/vlc/nightly-win64-ucrt-llvm) that you can
> get the optimum results on Windows. If you are a developer, for Linux
> specific things I think it makes more sense to not use a virtual machine
> (especially for developing a video player), and for Windows specific things
> I think nowadays it is not so hard to use MinGW-w64 to cross build for
> Windows.
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