[MPlayer-cygwin] Error compiling Mplayer: in libmpcodecs/vd_mpng.o

[compn]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:10:24 +0300, Eugene Kovgar wrote:
>>> libmpdemux/demux_real.c: In function 'demux_real_fill_buffer':
>>> libmpdemux/demux_real.c:571:12: internal compiler error: Segmentation  
>>> fault
>>> Please submit a full bug report,
>>> with preprocessed source if appropriate.
>>> See <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html> for instructions.
>>> make: *** [libmpdemux/demux_real.o] Error 1
>>
>> ouch. an ICE. sorry to hear that. running make again gets the same
>> problem? you are just hitting every bug you can arent you? next i
>> predict that svn corrupts your checkout and you get some random parse
>> error.
>>
>> an older gcc like gcc 4.2 should get past this point (i use 3.4.5
>> myself). thats why i recommended it to you before :)
>>
>> -compn
>
>Last summer I used 3.4.5 successfully. But now I decide to try 4.5. Well,  
>will see. May be I'll try GCC 4.2 as you recommend me. The thing is all  
>Mplayer components was compiled successfully but Mplayer seems cannot deal  
>with last version of GCC.

we joke around that gcc devs should compile mplayer before every version
of gcc is released. unfortunately, what you also find is that a distro's
build of gcc will crash, while if you build gcc 4.5 from source, it
wont crash. lots of fun when trying to debug gcc and then you find out
it was mingw's bad gcc and not plain gcc's fault at all.

we could put such info in the docs, but the docs are already so
bogged down with information, i wonder how many people even read the
whole thing?

one more thing, make sure you have a newer version of YASM, it will
speed mplayer up quite a bit.

-compn