[MPlayer-cygwin] How to get a mplayer with fontconfig?

[John Brown]

RVM wrote:
>
> I compiled mplayer under Windows, following this guide:
> http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-cygwin/2005-August/002261.html
>
> It's outdated but I managed to get a mplayer.exe that works ok. But it doesn't
> have fontconfig support (that guide doesn't mention it).
>
> I tried to do it by my own, but it's a mess: when trying to compile
> fontconfig, it asks for pkg-config. Compilation of pkg-config fails because it
> can't find glib.h, compilation of glib fails because it doesn't find
> pkg-config! I'm lost.
>
> Is there an easy way to get a mplayer compiled with fontconfig support?
>
> --
> RVM

Please see the following:


> On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:42:39 +0300, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
>
> John Brown writes:
>> Thanks. Just one more thing. In the pkg-config documentation, it says that
>> you can get around the circular dependency between GLib and pkg-config by
>> using the handwritten makefiles for MSVC or gcc. However, I see only a
>> makefile.msc. Where can I get a Mingw makefile?
>
> Ah, it has been discontinued, as it was a never-ending struggle to
> maintain it manually in parallel with the Makefile.am files.
>
> If somebody wants to build GLib and pkg-config from scratch on Win32,
> the easiet way aroung the circular dependency is to just remove the
> checks for pkg-config from GLib's configure.in, as they aren't really
> needed when building GLib. (The checks are there, I guess, just
> because GLib includes .pc files and it is thought that it doesn't make
> sense to install these unless the machine has pkg-config, or
> something.)
>
> --tml
> 

If you can't be bothered with that, I believe that you can download
pkg-config binaries for windows from GNUWin32 project at
SourceForge.
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