[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] win32 codec path

[Joey Parrish]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 01:20:52AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> MinGW does not work also, tmppath gets set to
> 
> c:\Programme\cygwin\home\diego\mingw\/mingw/lib/codecs
> 
> which obviously cannot work.  When I recompile with 
> --with-codecsdir=codecs, Windows starts complaining about pncrt.dll.  I 
> got the DLL and put it in the codecs directory and lo and behold, it works!

What does pncrt.dll do?  What codec set is it a part of?
Can we start including it in the downloadable codec packs on mphq?

> And with pncrt.dll it also works under Cygwin.  Oh happy day.
> 
> So now all we need to do is fix the absolute path on MinGW..

Try --with-codecsdir=codecs as a relative path with respect to the
location of the executable.  Otherwise, use a full path, such as
"X:\blahblah\some\place\codecs".
I believe that's the purpose of that piece of code Sascha wrote
ifndef CYGWIN.  If a ':' is found in the path name, it's treated as a
full absolute path, otherwise it's treated as a relative path to the
executable.  Is that correct?

--Joey