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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 09:30:14AM +0200, Felix Buenemann wrote:
> On Friday 24 May 2002 06:27, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > > > > IIRC SDL redirects stdout/stderr to a file called 'stdout.txt' or
> > > > > something similiar.
> > > >
> > > > Right. Which is good for newbie-friendly games for windows, etc., but
> > > > BAD for porting unix programs!
> > > 
> > > heh?? I have stderr and stdout on my cygwin bash prompt....
> >
> > Yeah, but the precompiled mingw one kills them to a dumb file. Last I
> > checked, you had to specify a option to configure at compiletime to
> > disable that behavior.
> >
> > On the other hand, it might just be that mplayer.c doesn't include the
> > stupid SDL header that mangles main() to redirect it from its own
> > startup handler, if you're just talking about mplayer.
> mplayer only includes sdl files inside vo_sdl and ao_sdl so main function is 
> not mangled by sdl...

Right. Isn't that what I just said was probably the case?

Rich