[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] include dshow, ddraw, dinput headers

[Diego Biurrun]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 08:00:54PM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:06:06PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 09:28:19PM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:11:23PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 01:05:49PM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > > > > http://natsuki.mplayerhq.hu/~reimar/ddraw.h
> > > > > http://natsuki.mplayerhq.hu/~reimar/dinput.h
> > > > > http://natsuki.mplayerhq.hu/~reimar/dsound.h
> > > > > 
> > > > > ideally I'd like to put them e.g. in osdep and the add -Iosdep to extra_cflags
> > > > > on win32 so that MPlayer compiles with -vo directx and -ao dsound even on
> > > > > a fresh, unmodified MinGW installation.
> > > > > Comments, any variant of this that would be acceptable to everyone?
> > > > 
> > > > I'm not terribly fond of this, much of osdep I consider a mistake.
> > > > 
> > > > IIRC we already require installing DirectX headers on Windows, so why
> > > > not require installing a few extra headers?
> > > 
> > > We don't require any, MPlayer compiles on a fresh MinGW.
> > 
> > Yes, but we require installing some headers for DirectX, right?
> > 
> > So why don't we add another package with these headers?
> 
> Ah, that's the misunderstanding.
> We have
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/win32/dx7headers.tgz
> But the are compressed almost 200 kB, and they include a lot of stuff
> we don't need and actually conflict with MinGW headers (e.g. d3d.h does).
> For MPlayer, the above ddraw.h and dsound.h provide exactly the same
> functionality (dinput.h is only for SDL).
> Not reading the documentation as usual, I always have a hard time finding
> that dx7headers file even if I want to use it, so I wanted to have everything
> in a more convenient place.
> Is my motivation now a bit clearer?

Yes, your motivation is clear now.

So how about creating a MinGW upgrade package that contains just the
necessary stuff?

> > > I just think having system headers that are licensed as (L)GPL would be quite
> > > unusual and possibly not welcome in the MinGW project.
> > 
> > Isn't MinGW GPL?  What license do they use for those headers?
> 
> No idea, found no information on that.

Then I don't understand what you meant by licensing problem.
Could you please explain again?

Diego