[MPlayer-cygwin] Mplayer compile errors

[Corey Hickey]

Chris Connolly wrote:
> I've been slowly working my way through the guide at
> http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32/contrib/MPlayer-MinGW-Howto.
> txt (substituting mingw with /usr/bin where relevant) but seem to be having
> trouble with libavformat/ libavcodec. During the configure, the compile says
> that libavcodec.so is broken (see below).  When I subsequently run make, I
> also get a large number of util.c errors, ending with the following:

Next time, please send those errors; sometimes it's hard to guess. :) I
think I see the problem from the configure output, however:

> Checking for FFmpeg libavutil (static) ... no

You need to get libavutil from ffmpeg, just like libavcodec and
libavformat. It's not your fault; the howto hasn't been updated since
libavutil was created.

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous at mplayerhq.hu:/cvsroot/ffmpeg  co -Pd
libavutil ffmpeg/libavutil

> Checking for FFmpeg libavcodec (static) ... no (libavutil availability does
> not
> 
> fit libavcodec version)

Once you have libavutil this should work.

> Checking for FFmpeg libavformat (static) ... yes

Good...

> Checking for FFmpeg libavcodec (dynamic) ... no (libavcodec.so is
> broken/obsolete)

Once libavcodec (static) is detected, configure won't need to look for this.

-Corey