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

[Eugene Kovgar]

>>>>>> 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
>>
>> So, may be it needs to try to build GCC 4.5 from cource? Is it very  
>> complicated? Or it's better just to use 4.2?
>>
>> Yasm. I'm using last stable version 1.0.1.
>>
>
> Ok. I've tried 4.4 and now old error appears:
>
>
> libavcodec/libavcodec.a(libvorbis.o):libvorbis.c:(.text.unlikely+0xb2):  
> undefine
> d reference to `vorbis_encode_setup_vbr'
> libavcodec/libavcodec.a(libvorbis.o):libvorbis.c:(.text.unlikely+0xf4):  
> undefine
> d reference to `vorbis_encode_setup_managed'
> libavcodec/libavcodec.a(libvorbis.o):libvorbis.c:(.text.unlikely+0x11a):  
> undefin
> ed reference to `vorbis_encode_ctl'
> libavcodec/libavcodec.a(libvorbis.o):libvorbis.c:(.text.unlikely+0x157):  
> undefin
> ed reference to `vorbis_encode_ctl'
> libavcodec/libavcodec.a(libvorbis.o):libvorbis.c:(.text.unlikely+0x163):  
> undefin
> ed reference to `vorbis_encode_setup_init'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [mplayer.exe] Error 1
>
> Damn!

Now I've uninstalled libvorbis-1.3.1 package and finally Mplayer compiled  
successfully with GCC 4.4!!! So the problem is in libvorbis package. May  
be it needs some patch or something to compile MPlayer with it without  
errors. Any suggestions?