[MPlayer-cygwin] get_path cygwin

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 07:04:29PM -0600, Joey Parrish wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 11:57:44PM -0500, compn wrote:
> > trying to build my own cygwin mplayer, and cant figure the path
> > part, mplayer keeps trying to load codecs.conf from a diff dir than
> > i want it to.
> > 
> > e.g. my mplayer returns
> > get_path('input.conf') -> '/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/resu/.mplayer/input.conf'
> > Can't open input config file /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/resu/.mplayer/input.conf: 
> > joey's mplayer returns
> > Parsing input config file C:\programs\mplayer\input.ini
> > Input config file C:\programs\mplayer\input.ini parsed: 44 binds
> > 
> > can joey's get_path be sent into main?
> > "hijack get_path in favor of my own version"
> > http://mirror-unt.nicewarrior.org/cygmp/20040928/patches-20040928/40.winstuff.patch
> 
> Absolutely not.  If you are custom compiling it to run in a cygwin
> environment, just specify the data path with configure.  My patch to
> look in the executable's directory ONLY makes sense for a packaging
> environment where there is no cygwin environment and the installation
> location is unknown at compile time.

Apparently this would be a desirable feature for Mac OS X as well to build
an app bundle (or whatever it's called), see the thread on dev-eng.

Diego