[MPlayer-cygwin] Compiling MPlayer using MinGW on Debian?

[Reimar Döffinger]

On 21 dec 2010, at 11:16, <simon.eigeldinger at vol.at> wrote:

> Hello Reimar,
> 
> On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:17:45 +0100
> Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 07:36:20AM +0100, simon.eigeldinger at vol.at wrote:
>>> It's me again.
>>> I plan to offer automatic builds of MPlayer for Windows.
>>> I have a Debian server at home and I want to compile MPlayer on it.
>>> Which packages do I need from the debian repository and how do I
>>> need to compile MPlayer using MinGW under Debian?
>> Don't have much time to reply properly, but have a look in DOCS/tech,
>> I think I documented this once in the hope to get at least one other
>> developer to test if their changes at least compile on Windows.
>> mingw-crosscompile.txt it should be.
>> Please help improve that if something is unclear or outdated, I suspect
>> nobody ever read it!
> 
> There is a .tar.bz2 file which contains various dependencies.
> Do i need to recompile them or does debian already comes with those?
> Do they need some special compilation or is it just the standard way to compile things?
> 
> $ ./configure
> $ make
> 
> or is it quite difficult to compile them?

Not particularly, it's just a bit inconvenient.

> Would it then possible if the server could compile such a package from time to time automatically?

It might make more sense to try and get mingw packages of these added to debian.
Personally I used gentoo, because there most packages could just be compiled for mingw directly.
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