[MPlayer-dev-eng] CygWin doc to be added under DOCS/tech

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:28:19AM +0200, Alex Beregszaszi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >  >  There are several changes that need to be made to the 'config.mak' file after
> >  >  running configure.
> >  > 
> >  >  Line 52 should read:
> >  > SDL_LIB = -L/usr/local/lib -lSDLmain -lSDL -mwindows -mcygwin
> >  > 
> >  >  Line 73 should read:
> >  > SDL_INC = -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/SDL -Dmain=SDL_main -DWIN32 -Uunix
> >  > 
> >  >  - If you have installed AAlib, ncurses and CygWin/XFree86 as well, another 
> >  > 	change may be needed.
> >  >  Line 54 should read:
> >  > AA_LIB = -laa -lncurses -lX11
> > 
> > 
> > Hmm, shouldn't configure be fixed instead of describing these
> > workarounds?  Why don't you implement something like --enable-cygwin
> > for configure?
> Yes, please make a patch. (--enable-cygwin should disable also win32 (--disable-win32)!)

Autodetecting cygwin and configuring properly makes more sense than
using a special option, no?

Rich