[MPlayer-cygwin] MPlayer MINGW32 porting status

[Sascha Sommer]

> 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?
>

Should be possible, but I didn't try yet.

Sascha