[MPlayer-dev-eng] MPlayer linking takes forever on MinGW

[compn]

On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 13:44:41 +0200, Georgi Petrov wrote:
>> I don't have any windows system so I can't confirm your issue, but this
>> may be related:
>>
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-alpha@lists.debian.org/msg24306.html
>
>I tried --no-relax and it didn't help. Thanks for pointing me to this
>thread, but it describes slightly different problem - ld taking 100%
>CPU while doing something different than my case.
>
>In my case ld.exe takes 1% CPU and enters completely pointless cycle
>of writing to mplayer.exe at maximum speed. I even leaved it one night
>long and in the morning it was still doing the same thing.
>
>I will continue my investigation.

did you disable superfetch/prefetch in w7? if not, try doing that.
also disable any antivirus crapware (windows defender, etc)
also turn off indexing on your hd

but if all that fails, just use xp in vmware :P

-compn