[MPlayer-dev-eng] cygwin/mingw win32 port?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 02:19:43AM +0200, Felix Buenemann wrote:
> On Friday 17 May 2002 22:10, Joey Parrish wrote:
> > On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 01:41:39PM -0500, Joey Parrish wrote:
> > > Has anyone gotten any good results trying to compile
> > > MPlayer under cygwin or mingw?
> > >
> > > So far I've gotten video output using SDL and OSS audio
> > > I had to disable MMX due to crashes in mp3 decoding.
> > > A proper bug report will be sent in ...
> >
> > Nevermind.  I'm not sure what I'm doing different this time,
> > but I'm no longer seeing crashes.  Chalk it up to user stupidity.
> >
> The crashes should be caused by several mp3lib functions calls not using 
> STDCALL calling conventions as this leaded to undefined symbols at link time, 
> if you can fix it send a patch. For now -vc ffmp3 should slways work fine.
> And besides someone should code a -vo directx for hw yuv overlay, as SDLs 
> directx overlay stuff is very buggy.

Not to mention SDL is a bitch to compile on cygwin, and the only
windows SDL binaries are for mingw for some dumb reason. Also, SDL
likes to get rid of stdin/out/err on windows, which is lame. :(

Rich