[MPlayer-cygwin] Some problems

[Sascha Sommer]

On Thursday 09 June 2005 19:15, Vizi Gabor wrote:
> > > > > MPlayer uses the default windows Loadlibrary. Please post your
> > > > > config.h and configure.log.
> > > >
> > > > i havent configure.log, only config.h and config.mak. they are here:
> > > > http://www.vizipok.hu/to/sascha/
> > >
> > > That is the problem:
> > >
> > > /* Win32 DLL support */
> > > #define USE_WIN32DLL 1
> > > #define WIN32_PATH "/usr/local/lib/codecs"
> > >
> > > As I already pointed out you have to pass the absolute windows path to
> > > configure
> > > If you have cygwin in c:\cygwin use
> > > ./configure --with-codecsdir=c:/cygwin/usr/local/lib/codecs
> >
> > Hmm, I thought Cygwin accepted Unix paths as well and that is how I
> > docuemented it back in the day.  I think I tested it thoroughly, so this
> > is quite puzzling.
>
> 1) cygwin must be accept unix paths. (and the mplayer.conf and the other
> work fine with unix path) for the codecs: in the source
> (mplayer.c:1088-1117) make the correct windows path for the codecs.
> 2) i tested it --with-codecsdir=... option too (see my previous mails or
> here belove), and didnt work, but i used the correct full windows path, so
> isnt this the solution.
>

I tested again it works with both unix and windows paths. The only "strange" 
thing is that on cygwin c:/cygwin/usr/lib is a link to c:/cygwin/usr
so the codecsdir needed to be in c:/cygwin/usr


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