[MPlayer-dev-eng] mplayer compilation with cygwin

[Rich Felker]

On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 10:08:09PM +0300, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
> On 30 September 2007, Gianluigi Tiesi wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 05:51:13PM +0200, roee wrote:
> > > > Most likely, the 'official windows mplayer' was compiled under MinGW
> > > > rather than under Cygwin. This might also explain some of the size
> > > > difference, depending. As I understand it, any Cygwin programs will
> > > > need Cygwin to run, but MinGW programs do not necessarily need MinGW to
> > > > run.
> > >
> > > it's now the first time i actually succeed to compile mplayer on MinGW,
> > > but now its . . . 10 MB :'(
> > > ( ./configure --enable-static)
> > >
> > > the dll thingy is now ok with mingw, only the size problem was left
> > >
> > > thanks for reply..
> > >   Roee.
> >
> > standard mplayer builds are always ~10mb
> >
> > I doubt you can find a 3mb mplayer binary around
> 
> Maybe it should be possible to get 3mb binary after stripping it and
> compressing with upx. But is there any strong need for it?

My mplayer binary is 8 megs static-linked, and I suspect you could get
it down a LOT just by removing unwanted codecs from libavcodec. My
libavcodec.a is over 4 megs alone.. and I suspect all of the encoding
code is getting linked in to the binary as well since it's not fully
factored from the decoder files. If you build with --disable-mencoder
(and maybe also --disable all the lavc encoders..?) the mplayer binary
might also get a lot smaller.

Also, disable unwanted vo & ao modules, etc..

Rich