[MPlayer-cygwin] Switches to compile mplayer on cygwin NODEAMON

[Thomas Plank]

Stefan Gürtler (helfmir at surfeu.de) wrote:

> Search the archiv of this year.

Thank you very much. Yesterday I searched a little bit, but I didn't
recognise the closest way.

> You will find mails about a HOTWO,
> descibing steps needed to build libraries needed for building mplayer 
> using MinGW. The autor of this HOWTO is Sascha Sommer, the one person 
> compiling the official win32 binaries (using MinGW), and following the 
> steps described in the HOWTO and using the ./configure command given 
> there, you should end up with a mplayer binary with the same options as 
> the official mplayer win32 binaries have.

I think I have underestimated the effort for building a mplayer.exe
correspondig to the official win32-beta.

What is the difference between building with cygwin and mingw? If I have
cygwin installed, but no mingw, can i still compile mplayer with directx
an so on?

> If the different behaviour results from the missing config file, you
> have to add the config file from the official binaries to ~/.mplayer, a 
> hidden directory in your cygwin home directory.

I don't think it's the config file.
I put the self-made exe in the same directory as the original one.
-- 
mfg Thomas