VLC for Windows 8 and Windows RT one step closer

VLC for Windows 8 and Windows 8 RT is one step closer to reality.

Here is the update from their Kickstarter page:

Technical update
If you followed closely, our main work, in addition to the UI, was to fight and replace the forbidden symbols not allowed on Windows App Store mode.

We’ve been quite efficient at that, working closely with Mingw-w64 project and GCC developers.

The biggest result is that we have now cut down 90% of our symbols, that are forbidden on Metro Mode.

We mostly did this by:

• replacing our forbidden calls with newer authorized equivalent calls,
• modifying gcc and Mingw-w64,
• writing new code in a special library of ours,
• writing dummy functions,
• disabling VLC code that would not work on the Metro platform,
• moving VLC to MSVCRT 11.0, moving all the VLC codebase to UNICODE and WideChars to fit the new requirements.

We did also a lot of minor things to help the integration of libVLC and VLC in this modern platform.

What are we working on now:

We are now mainly working on 2 things:

• make VLC work with MSVCRT 11.0 without crashing
• write headers and C/C++ code to access the new fashion of COM APIs in which WinRT is written in.

What we are gonna work just after:

• ARM, ARM, ARM.
• WP8

Are you excited for VLC for Windows 8? Let us know by leaving a comment below.