[MPlayer-cygwin] compiling mplayer probs ...
Julien WAJSBERG
flash at minet.net
Wed Sep 4 15:26:14 CEST 2002
For the library path problem, I found that cygwin is looking in the PATH
environment variable :)
What I do :
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/lib:/usr/X11R6/bin
and then all work wherever I am :)
--
Flash
On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 Gert.Vandelaer at medisearch-int.com wrote:
>
> Hya,
>
> I've gotten Mplayer to compile ... finally,
> had to do some fancy tricks with compiling aalib, ggi and sdl:
> libgii / libggi wouldn't compile "demos" / "test" part, but that's ok, got
> it installed ...
> sdl and aalib compiled fine (took me while to find the correct gcc
> version) Wtf is gcc2 package btw ? ... It contains no cc1 among other
> things ...
> Why is there no "ldconfig" wiht the cygwin distro ... or maybe there is ?
> Or maybe cygwin uses a different mechanism that I haven't figured out yet
> to keep track of where to look for libraries ?
> anyway ...
> I configured mplayer --disable-win32 ... autodetected aa, ggi and sdl fine
> ...
> compiled fine ... installed fine, but I can only run mplayer from the
> "/usr/local/lib" directory , because otherwise I get a"... missing SDL.DLL
> ..." error, that's what got me thinking a bit harder about the whole
> library search path thing in cygwin ... It had allready occured to me that
> there was no "ld.so.conf" to adapt nor a "ldconfig" ... but I figured
> cygwin used a different system, but now I need to know this system, because
> it's bugging me seriously...
>
> I tried running mplayer from inside the "/usr/local/lib" directory, it gave
> me the help screen .. YES !! ... But now when I try to play a movie with
> -vo sdl , mplayer bugs out with fatal error 11, and suggests a compiler bug
> of some sort ... ok, no worries, it can happen :) It did work with -vo aa
> though !!
> All this was compiled with gcc-2.95-3, so I tried with the gcc-3.2 ...ran
> the setup tool, uninstalled 2.95-3 ... and installed 3.2.1 ... did a
> distclean on mplayer tree, reran configure ... but I noticed it didn't
> detect aa, ggi or SDL anymore ... damn, again a "ldconfig" issue .. (I
> really need to find out how this works damned !) I also tried "export
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib" ... but it didn't help ... I read in the
> docs that most cygwin apps don't use this much anyway ;-)
>
> So I redid "make install" in the allready built aalib, gii / ggi and SDL
> ... because I noticed it does re-linking on cygwin system, so I assumed it
> would somehow also fix the search-path for libraries ... but to no avail
> ... I had to recompile all libraries with gcc3-2 and read up on some cygwin
> docs (I've only been using this for 2 days now) ... Strangely enough,
> mplayer configure didn't autodetect aalib (I tested it first before i
> restarted build of any other library ...), I had to specify
> "/usr/local/lib" with --with-extralibdir, so now it did "autodetect" the
> aalib on my system ... also ggi and SDL were found again now.
>
> altered the "config.mak" according to docs ...
> compiled mplayer again ... some warnings about __fastcall being redefined
> ... that's ok, some other warnings too... more worrying ones like "missing
> operand; zero assumed" *grin* ... anyway, compile process bums out on me at
> "mpdvdkit" (something in the ".h file" ... so I disabled this feature and
> recompiled ...)
>
> I can play only when in X, -vo sdl -vo ggi ... not yet working, although
> the error mplayer spews out when using -vo ggi is rather hopefull ...
> libGGI : couldn't open /usr/local/etc/ggi/libggi.conf ... maybe it needs to
> have some special mode ... gonna look in the code for that.
> "-vo x11" : I can play movies, but without sound and it's very very very
> slow ... but I think this has something to do with the warnings during
> compile stating that I've misconfigured my system blah blah ....
> "-vo aa" : also works, but same as x11 ... very very very slow ...
>
> Is there some way to optimize that anyone knows of ? :)
>
> any comments much appreciated.
> Sorry for the long post ...
> but I prefer being thorough rather than just say "help, it doesn't work" ;
> -) And I typed all this while compiling was going on ... time to spare :)
>
> Cya,
> Gert
>
>
>
>
>
> Joey Parrish
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> On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 12:13:17PM +0200, Gert.Vandelaer at medisearch-int.com
> wrote:
> > Hy all,
>
> > I'm trying to get mplayer to run cygwin,
> > compiled sdl, ggi, aa, libdivxdecore and installed all fine ..
>
> Once you get MPlayer running, if -vo ggi works for you,
> please write back and describe how you configured ggi and
> how you configured MPlayer. It's one of the things I can't
> seem to make work. But, maybe I'm dumb at strange times. :)
>
> > next mplayer,
> > configure didn't detect libdivx for starters, maybe I need to tweak the
> > config.mak for this build ?
>
> libdivx?
>
> > Anyway, I start compiling ...
> > I get a whole bunch of warnings, config.h:win32 redefined blah blah ...
> but
> > compile continues ...
>
> This is normal for cygwin MPlayer.
>
> > and after a while I get an internal gcc compile error, signal 11 (hmm, no
> > bad memory here)
> > win32.c:1558: warning: #warning FIXME
> > win32.c:2573: warning: #warning FIXME!
> > cpp0: output pipe has been closed
> > gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11
> > make[1]: *** [win32.o] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gvandelaer/MPlayer-0.90pre5/loader'
> > make: *** [loader/libloader.a] Error 2
>
> Eek, yes, cygwin's gcc has some issues. It does crash on occasion.
> Try this:
> ./configure --enable-debug && make
>
> Let me know how this affects it, it may lead me to a
> decent answer about why gcc dies like this on win32.
>
> > I got the latest cygwin release ...
>
> Also, see if there are any upgraded gcc packages.
> (I think I have a copy of gcc-2.95-8 ? I'll have
> to dig out my cygwin box next week and find out.
> Sorry I can't test any of this out sooner.)
> You might also try gcc3 packages instead.
>
> > I've read the mplayer docs for cygwin ... not much on cygwin to be found.
>
> Expecting DOCS for cygwin... :)
> My hope is that when cygwin MPlayer becomes as stable
> as Linux MPlayer, there won't need to be cygwin-specific
> DOCS at all. Wouldn't that be nice?
>
> > Cya,
> > Gert
>
> Keep me posted.
>
> --Joey
>
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