[MPlayer-cvslog] r35250 - trunk/configure

[Reimar Döffinger]

On 19 Oct 2012, at 06:18, Josh <joshf87 at live.com> wrote:
> On 10/18/2012 17:18, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
>> Ingo Brückl <ib <at> wupperonline.de> writes:
>> 
>>>> Log:
>>>> Detect direct.h and io.h on Windows.
>>>> Patch by Stephen Sheldon, sfsheldo gmail
>>> This breaks Wine compilation:
>>> 
>>> libdvdcss/libdvdcss.c:124:23: error: direct.h: No such file or directory
>> Sorry, but I don't even know what "Wine compilation" is...
>> 
>> Please elaborate, and please run make twice and post
>> the complete, uncut output of the last run.
>> 
>> Thank you, Carl Eugen
>> 
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> MPlayer compiles fine on MinGW and seeing how MPlayer is multi-platform I'm not sure why WINE is needed.

Because we have a maintainer for the GUI who also looks after the Windows GUI but prefers to test/work on Linux. By compiling for Wine it is possible to test the Windows GUI while being able to use the native libraries from the Linux system like libvorbis.