[MPlayer-cygwin] Does MinGW tutorial still applies for compiling the current release (r2)?

[Compn]

On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:14:46 +0800, Deepak wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Following along the list archieves, I had exactly the same question 
>asked in 
>http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-cygwin/2007-December/003087.html 

the official releases are compiled using mingw.

>. Following along the discussion, found the tutorial  
>http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/win32/MPlayer-MinGW-Howto.txt .
>
>My question:
>
>Is this tutorial still applies for compiling the latest release
>version (0.r2)? Is there any changes I need to consider from this
>howto??
>
>Thanks

that tutorial is a bit outdated.
get the latest 'current' mingw and msys versions.
i dont think libtheora is needed
mplayer isnt on cvs anymore, but svn now.

you can find some of the external libs precompiled at:
http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php
also up-to-date mingw mplayer builds :)

-compn