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

[compn]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 15:46:40 +0000
Chris Taylor <chris at equate.dyndns.org> wrote:

> compn wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 02:38:44 +0100
> > Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>The Cygwin port uses Unix-style paths.  Just run MPlayer from the Cygwin
> >>command line.
> >>
> >>Diego
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > i only have cygwin installed on one pc, but i want to my mplayer binaries
> > on multiple pc's
> > 
> > -compn
> > 
> 
> You have two options then (possibly only one)
> 
> 1) Use a mingw-compiled version on the non-cygwin boxen
> 2) Copy cygwin1.dll to the other boxes and specify the path to 
> codecs.conf on the commandline - be aware that the path to all dll files 
> will be incorrect.
> 

even on the cygwin box, i dont use the cygwin console to run mplayer, mostly
because i have mplayer set to open all video files and windows does not call
mplayer in the cygwin console... (also i dont like the way copy/paste works in
rxvt console, cygwin console is like cmd.exe (or other way around) so i'm used
to it more.)

the cygwin binaries work on my pcs, i think i copied cygwin1.dll long ago, 
the only problem was confdir and codecsdir, but yeah, after i posted
i remembered -input and other switches, i could make an alias/shortcut/batch
file to call mplayer -input c:\mplayer\mplayer\input.conf -config c:\mplayer
\mplayer\config "$1" . but iirc, there is still no -codecsdir option.

like i said in an earlier mail, the patch to add codecs dirs works and is
on the 'MPlayer on Win32' page http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php
i believe this could also be added to the confdir part of the source...

diff -NubBr -xCVS -xhelp_mp.h -x'*.a' -x'*.exe' -x'*.o' -xconfigure.log -xconfig.mak -x.cvsignore -xconfig.h -xcodecs.conf.h -xversion.h -x.depend main/get_path.c sherpya/get_path.c
--- main/get_path.c2005-10-31 10:19:03.749950400 +0100
+++ sherpya/get_path.c2005-10-31 10:50:21.540080000 +0100
@@ -139,6 +139,11 @@
 sprintf(tmppath,"%s;%s",win32path,realpath);
 #endif /*USE_REALCODECS*/
 #endif /*__CYGWIN__*/
+#if defined(WIN32)
+strncat(tmppath, ";", sizeof(tmppath));
+strncat(tmppath, win32path, sizeof(tmppath));
+strncat(tmppath, "codecs", sizeof(tmppath));
+#endif
 mp_msg(MSGT_WIN32, MSGL_V,"Setting PATH to %s\n",tmppath);
 if (!SetEnvironmentVariableA("PATH", tmppath))
 mp_msg(MSGT_WIN32, MSGL_WARN, "Cannot set PATH!");


anyways, thanks for the reccomendations :)

-compn

> There is of course the 3rd option of installing a minimal cygwin on the 
> other boxes, done by merely running setup and not changing any of the 
> default options.. Though I would always strongly recommend installing 
> rxvt and using it over the default cmd.exe - it's far more responsive.
> 
> Chris
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