From b4e0d32946784817938b6278d44c465e28f82224 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: moritz Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:40:24 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] vcredist is now a requirement, and mention FLAC. git-svn-id: https://svn.xiph.org/trunk/ezstream@15876 0101bb08-14d6-0310-b084-bc0e0c8e3800 --- win32/README.win32 | 19 +++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/win32/README.win32 b/win32/README.win32 index a7fd877..ef268a2 100644 --- a/win32/README.win32 +++ b/win32/README.win32 @@ -37,10 +37,16 @@ README.win32 - Information about the binary Ezstream distribution for Windows As of version 0.3.0, ezstream no longer comes with an installer. If you have a previous version of ezstream installed, you might want to simply uninstall it. -The ezstream.exe file will work from any location. To install it, simply copy -it to a location of your choosing. Add this place to your PATH environment -variable, if ezstream.exe is supposed to be executable from anywhere on the -system. +The ezstream.exe file can be run from any location. To install it, simply copy +it to a location of your choosing. To make it available anywhere on the +system, add the installation folder to your PATH environment variable. + +If it doesn't start, e.g. running + > ezstream.exe -h +does not show the command line help, the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 runtime +libraries are missing. Download and install vcredist_x86.exe, which can be +easily found on www.microsoft.com via + http://www.google.com/search?q=vc+2008+redist @@ -50,8 +56,8 @@ system. A few useful features are missing in the Windows version of ezstream: * Runtime control via signals is not possible. - * Some useful external utilities (encoders, decoders, etc) may not be - available on Windows. + * Some useful external utilities (encoders, decoders) may not be available on + Windows. @@ -64,6 +70,7 @@ Ezstream uses: * libiconv (http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/, LGPL) * libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org/, BSD-like license) * libogg, libvorbis, libvorbisfile (http://www.vorbis.com/, BSD-like license) + * libFLAC (http://flac.sourceforge.net/, BSD-like license) * libtheora (http://www.theora.org/, BSD-like license) * libshout (http://www.icecast.org, LGPL) * TagLib (http://ktown.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib.html, LGPL)