[MPlayer-cygwin] Re: Mplayer win32 GUI questions

[Frank Aurich]

Erik Lunchpail wrote:
>> Since I don't use a GUI though, I'm wondering if it
>> is possible to do 
>> some of the things without the need to use
>> --enable-gui at ./configure?
>>
>> I tried extracting the -console code to integrate it
>> into my build, but 
>> failed horribly. Then again, my knowledge of C is
>> fairly bad.
>>
>>
>> Anyway, it'd be great if there's a way to separate
>> GUI code from the 
>> other enhancements.
> 
> Yea it's all quite possible, and in fact I believe
> Joey Parrish has a patch in his cygwin builds that
> uses AllocConsole(), so you could always look at that
> as well.
> 
> As far as IPC is concerned, it's not even necessary
> with a commandline version of mplayer, unless you
> don't like finishing playback of files :) Nonetheless,
> a simple message handler is all that's needed if you
> want to give it an idle loop and intercept messages.
> 
> Regards,
> Erik
> 

I had already looked at the patches Joey provides, but unfortunately the 
one I'm interested does only work on Cygwin (there's a method call to 
cygwin_attach_handle_to_fd(..)).

At that point my skills aren't good enough to do a rewrite for 
MingW/Win32 :)