[MPlayer-cygwin] more recent win32 builds?

Sascha Sommer saschasommer at freenet.de
Thu Mar 27 18:20:21 CET 2003


> Now, win32 builds need cygwin1.dll to work, which is bad.
> You must get it from cygwin.com and this makes a dependance.
> 
> Using the -mno-cygwin allows no need of the cygwin1.dll at all and
> gives full windows compatibility.
> 
> The only thing that stops mplayer to compile with -mno-cygwin is
> libpthread, not supported by mingw.Now Sacha says it isnt needed...
> <grin>

Are you really sure?
There is many unix stuff missing which needs emulation.
Btw. my name is Sascha.

Sascha Sommer



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