[MPlayer-cygwin] compiling mplayer : pthread problems

[Sascha Sommer]

> > > ./configure --disable-mpdvdkit --with-extraincdir=/usr/include/mingw
> >
> > Why --with-extraincdir=/usr/include/mingw ?
> >
> > If you want to have the cygwin version you have to use the cygwin
> > headers. If you want the mingw version use msys to configure and mingw
> > to compile mplayer.
> >
> > This version doesn't need libpthread. Probably a static version is not
> > possible with cygwin.
>
> for some reason my cygwin install does not have inttypes.h in
> /usr/include.  i searched the archives, which suggested it may be in /etc
> under a different name - but alas, it was not there.
>
> a simple 'find . | grep' yielded it in /usr/include/mingw, so i included
> that dir also for include files just to get past that hang up in the
> configure script, but then the next hang up is in the
>

please copy the etc/cygwin_inttypes.h from your mplayer tree to
/usr/include/inttypes.h
and run configure without the extrainclude command

Sascha