[MPlayer-cygwin] Re: Mplayer compilation on Window - Newbie

[Rohan Shah]

I looked at the list on the setup.exe install menu and could not find an 
iconv package. I searched the web and could not find a download. I am 
not sure what you mean by "read the archives". Do you mean the email 
archives? Or something on the web?

Rohan

Diego Biurrun wrote:

> Rohan Shah writes:
> 
>>I tried making the mplayer source after sucessful configuring and I get 
>>the following error:
>>
>>make -C libvo
>>make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/MPlayer-1.0pre4/libvo'
>>cc -c -I../libvo/ -I../../libvo -O4 -march=pentium4 -mcpu=pentium4 -pipe 
>>-ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE 
>>-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D__CYGWIN__  -I. -I.. -I../osdep 
>>-I/usr/include/freetype2      -DMPG12PLAY  -o font_load_ft.o font_load_ft.c
>>font_load_ft.c:21:19: iconv.h: No such file or directory
> 
> 
> This line is the hint, you need iconv.
> 
> Also please read the archives, this has been discussed in detail
> before and there were instructions on how to build the GUI under
> Cygwin.
> 
> Diego