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

[Deepak]

Compn wrote:
> 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 that tutorial is a bit outdated.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
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Thanks for the pointers. :)

By the way I am trying to download the "libregif" but their mirror is 
down. I tried to notify the broken link but email is also not working. 
Where else I can download these libraries??