[MPlayer-dev-eng] swab is in string.h on win32 and declaration conflicts

[JonY]

On 5/30/2011 06:12, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 09:10:41PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
>> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 05:34:24AM +0200, Gianluigi Tiesi wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:04:53AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>>>> You are wrong, the costs do add up.  Small as they may look at each
>>>> incremental step, you end up with 10k lines of configure to support
>>>> all system-specific shenanigans.
>>>>
>>>> What is worse, however, is that every workaround that is added by users
>>>> of the platform makes it less likely that the platform itself actually
>>>> gets fixed.  We have witnessed this for years with the BSDs, porters
>>>> kept adding gazillions of workarounds to each application instead of
>>>> fixing their libc once.
>>>>
>>>> Plus, it is *easy* to get MinGW fixed, as I have already proved.  There
>>>> is absolutely no excuse to waste more time flaming here than it would
>>>> take to get MinGW fixed.
>>>>
>>>
>>> it's really not a big deal for me to fix my headers, but this will break
>>> compilation on standard mingw installs too (http://www.mingw.org/)
>>>
>>> I'm not sure mingw64 (that also ships 32bit compiler) will replace www.mingw.org
>>> Perhaps cygwin toolchain for it's still broken, it links advapi32 symbols to kernel32
>>> and at least on winxp x64 and 2003 x64 registry handling functions are still in advapi32
>>
>> I managed to compile MPlayer on cygwin with the mingw64 toolchain,
>> except that I had to add back the check for swab in stdlib.h.
>> Would I get strong objections if I added it back with a comment
>> saying to remove it once Cygwin has updated its copy to a fixed
>> upstream version?
> 
> I'm confused.  MPlayer compiles fine for me on Cygwin.
> What does Cygwin need to update?
> 
> Diego

I believe its the mingw-w64 cross toolchain found in the Cygwin repo
that needs updating. I'll get on it once my IRL stuff is handled,
probably in the coming weeks.

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