[MPlayer-cygwin] MPlayer MINGW32 porting status

[mdew]

On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 20:02, Sascha Sommer wrote:
> Hi,
> Today I successfully compiled mplayer with mingw32.
> If you want to run configure on msys you need the attached patch.
> The following things are currently broken or disabled:
> - cache is disabled because it uses fork()
> - slave mode does not work: It requires own read function, because there is
> no posix compatible select() available
> - vf_bmovl disable: select() and other posix stuff
> - mf doesn't work: requires glob()
> - console input does not work with msys console: it works with cygwin and
> windows console; Probably there is some stdin redirection problem
>   because cygwin mplayer doesn't work with msys, too
> - streaming does not work
> - some libavcodec files do not compile because they include windows.h which
> has its own DATADIR
>   see attached patch for a quick workaround: better would be to rename our
> DATADIR to maybe MPDATADIR
> - HOME environment variable is not set
> - lots of warnings (_MAX_DRIVE, _MAX_FNAME, _MAX_PATH, ...): easy to fix but
> require to patch loader/wine/
>   may make syncing to avifile harder
> - -autosync 100 may make playback more fluent
> - win32 codec support: Alex ?
> 

out of interest, can you cross-compile mplayer in linux for win32? (make
a windows binary) is this mingw32? 

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