[MPlayer-cygwin] Re: Problems compiling for windows platform

[Chris Taylor]

> > Hi there,
> > I am trying to compile MPlayer/MEncoder for Windows using Cygwin.
> > I have several questions:
> > - Does somebody know which is the minimal set of packages I 
> have to download for
> > Cygwin to compile MPlayer? I downloaded ~20Mb of packages 
> which I think are not
> > necessary...

Well, you'll definitely need the gcc suite and more than a few development
headers and libraries.

Beyond that, it really depends what you want to enable. Most of it you will
have to download and compile yourself, manually..
Things like xvid, lame, libogg, libvorbis, and so on.
I'll be doing this myself shortly, so can probably put together some sort of
guide on going from source to finished build with most features enabled...

> 
> hmm, are you trying to cross compile? that is building a 
> cygwin mplayer on
> linux?

No, otherwise there wouldn't have been a mention of the minimum packages
needed to compile under cygwin ;)

> 
> if so, i dont think its possible yet
> 
> compiling your own mplayer is difficult to get started, and 
> most people use mingw
> ask joey, his mplayer package is cygwin, check the projects page.

Personally I'd disagree.. As long as you have some basic knowledge of linux
;-)

> 
> also check the docs about the dependencies (libogg libvorbis etc)
> 
> did you come from the kvcd forums? if not, check there for info
> http://kvcd.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=81
> 

It's not really dependant on libogg, libvorbis, lame or any of those.. You
just need them if you want to be able to use those formats most of the
time..
You will definitely need the directx headers though.

Chris