[MPlayer-cygwin] which confdir to use when compiling on cygwin?

[Chris Taylor]

Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 08:17:35PM -0500, compn wrote:
> 
>>i cant figure it out, most of the binary packages have normal conf dirs
>>e.g. if mplayer.exe is in c:\mplayer\ then its c:\mplayer\mplayer\config
>>but my mplayer builds have the problem of using /cygdrive crap...
> 
> 
> The Cygwin port uses Unix-style paths.  Just run MPlayer from the Cygwin
> command line.
> 
> Diego
> 

Indeed, the behaviour described is what is expected.
Run it from within rxvt (much better terminal than cmd).
If you want it to use native windows paths, you have to compile the 
mingw version - I believe this can be done within cygwin, but I haven't 
ever had cause to do so.


Chris
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