[MPlayer-cygwin] compile the libs on mingw

[Sascha Sommer]

On Thursday 06 January 2005 02:10, Wen-King Su wrote:
> >-------------- next part --------------
> >Once finished this should become a howto that will explain the steps
> > necessary to setup the toolchain to compile your own versions of MPlayer
> > on MinGW similar to the one in the packages found at
> > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32-beta
>
> ...
>
> >Step 4 zlib, libregif, libpng, libjpeg
> >zlib is needed for some mov files with compressed headers the others to
> > play/encode png/jpeg/gif files
> >
> >Sources are available from:
> >http://www.gzip.org/zlib/
> >http://armory.nicewarrior.org/projects/libregif/
> >http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5624
> >http://www.ijg.org/
>
> .....
>
> >tar -xvvzf jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
> >cd jpeg-6b
> >./configure --prefix=/mingw/ --enable-static
> >make
> >cp .libs/libjpeg.a c:/mingw/lib/
> >cp jpeglib.h jconfig.h jmorecfg.h c:/mingw/include/
> >cd
> >
> >tar -xvvzf libregif-4.1.5.tar.gz
> >cd libregif-4.1.5
> >./configure --prefix=c:/mingw
> >make
> >make install
> >cd
>
> I am following this exactly.  So far so good until I get to libregif.
> I can't seem to get a response from the server to download libregif.
> It has been down all day.

Same for me.

> Also is jpeg-6b really to be configured with --prefix=/mingw/ and not
> --prefix=c:/mingw ?

Yes, but we are copying the libs and header manually anyway, therefore it does 
not matter. I did not yet find out why make install won't install the 
headers/libs at all.

Sascha