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

[Clément Bœsch]

On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 04:01:28PM +0200, Georgi Petrov wrote:
> > i meant for compiling only. or even just the linking part.
> 
> Yes, this my consideration as well. I'll build a small custom solution
> if I have to, but since I will work on this project for half a year in
> the future, VMware-less solution will be more than required.
> 
> You understand how uncomfortable would be to have a full featured
> VMware with XP inside sitting in the background just for linking a
> couple of libraries in a binary :)
> 
> I'll try to submit a bug report, but I'm not sure where. May be I
> should start from MinGW/MSYS guys?
> 
> The interesting part is that this doesn't happen with older MPlayer
> SVN revisions. Somewhere, somehow this problem was triggered.
> Compiling without optimization (in order to produce different code in
> each library) doesn't make any difference, as well as any imaginable
> ld switch.
> 
> I won't give up.

This may sounds stupid but… have you tried with a w7 out of the box (just
like you did with xp)? It seems strange to me that no one ever build
MPlayer on w7.

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Clément B.
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