[MPlayer-cygwin] MinGW-HOWTO

[Diego Biurrun]

I'm on it finally.  A rough draft is sitting here in my local tree, I 
will commit it in the next 2-3 days.

Diego

Stefan Gürtler wrote:
> MinGW  3.0.0-rc4 is out. Are all needed bugfixes to the MinGW-environment
> added and did you write the HOWTO for the /doc/tech? I dont want to download
> a whole cvs-snapshot just to confirm the existance of your HOWTO. Sorry for
> pressing you, but in the moment I am on fire testing/compiling mplayer(-g2)
> on different platforms (Linux, Linux via movix and Win32).
> If the time for your HOWTO did not come yet, will you anounce its creation
> on mplayer-cygwin, once it is written?
> 
>>Arpi writes:
>> > > The easiest thing would be to use the binary packages from mingw.org.
>> > > To get mplayer compiled you also need all the updates they provide
> 
> and
> 
>> > > dx7header as well as sys/types.h from
>> > > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32-beta/contrib/
>> > > You also have to install msys.
>> > > Then you can ./configure mplayer with the msys console.
>> >
>> > hmm, could you write a short HOWTO into docs/tech/ listing the steps
>> > required to getting tools (with URLs) and compile mplayer with them?
>>
>>I have wanted to write a MinGW section for the DOCS for some time, but
>>have refrained so far because the port is still alpha and you need to
>>manually update a few things in your MinGW environment.  The next
>>release of MinGW should contain them all and compiling MPlayer should
>>not be harder than on any *nix then.