[MPlayer-cygwin] official win32 package?

Arpi arpi at thot.banki.hu
Mon Jan 20 02:33:16 CET 2003


Hi,

> Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
> >>>Is there a way to compile MPlayer statically (or whatever) so that
> >>it does not need a full Cygwin environment?  Has anybody tried this
> >>with MPlayer or some other application?
> > 
> > that kind of thing cannot be called an application. its awfull.
> > many cygwin issues comes from multiple versions of cygwin1.dll
> > installed everywhere in the disk.
> > you can compile a program to not use the cygwin dll, with the option
> > -mno-cygwin.
> 
> Did you try that with MPlayer?  How does it work exactly?

of course it won't compile, since mplayer is using POSIX calls and not MSVC
functions... so you need the cygwin posix emulation layer or you need to do
a real win32 port, by replacing fopen() by CreateFileA() and so on...
afaik the xbox mediaplayer guys do just that.


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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