[MPlayer-cygwin] libfaad2 vs MinGW

Sascha Sommer saschasommer at freenet.de
Sun Sep 26 18:28:23 CEST 2004


On Friday 24 September 2004 17:39, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I just updated the internal libfaad2 with a 2.1 beta CVS snapshot.  It
> has better performance and plays some samples that would fail with the
> 2.0 release.  There is a drawback for MinGW users, though: It triggers a
> compiler bug in the gcc that comes with the latest MinGW/MSYS release.
> You will have to update your gcc to get MPlayer to compile properly.
> Fortunately, this is a very easy thing to do:
>
> Grab a gcc 3.3.1 (probably the 3.4.1 candidate will work as well)
> tarball from
>
> http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml
>
> and unpack it in /mingw/.  Everything should work then.
>

gcc 3.2.3 from an old mingw package works for me here, too.

Sascha




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