[MPlayer-dev-eng] Cygwin inttypes

[Sascha Sommer]

> Diego Biurrun writes:
>  > While playing around with Cygwin I came up with an idea for a (better?)
>  > solution for the inttypes.h problem. (On Cygwin it is necessary to put
>  > etc/cygwin_inttypes.h in /usr/include/ as inttypes.h)
>  >
>  > I renamed etc/cygwin_inttypes.h to etc/inttypes.h and added the
>  > following lines to configure:
>  >
>  > if cygwin ; then
>  >    _inc_extra="$_inc_extra -Ietc"
>  > fi
>  >
>  > Works like a charm without the header file hassle.
>
> The best solution would of course be adding inttypes.h to Cygwin and
> lo and behold that is what I did.  It's amazing what you can
> accomplish just by asking nicely.  I'll remove etc/cygwin_inttypes.h
> once a new Cygwin release is out.
>

No, please don't delete it. I think updating the docs is enough.
Some people might still want to use older cygwin releases without having to
get inttypes from somewhere else.

Sascha