[MPlayer-users] Re: SVN Compilation in Win XP: Configure ismissing???

[John Brown]

Alexander Bokovikov wrote:
>Hello, John,
>
>>The MPlayer documentation is available as a single HTML file at:
>>http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML-single/en/MPlayer.html
>
>Thank you for the link, will try to read it :)
>As for Mingw, I've found in the brief doc, that "...it is atrick to build 
>MPlayer using Mingw...". So, I'm afraid I'll have even more troubles there, 
>as I'm not so familiar with Linux, so what is obvious for you, is not for 
>me :(

I am also new to Linux. Anyway...

Actually, there is no "trick". The difference is that by default, Windows
has none of what you need, so you have to download a lot of
software from many different places.
>

>To this moment I've discovered (you can evaluate my Linux skills...) that I 
>need to run sh.exe with "-o igncr" option in order to be able to compile 
>"configure" in Windows.

Something is wrong. That should not be necessary.

>So, now it produces none of "strange errors" but... It says that:
>
>============ Checking for cc version ============
>Result is: not found
>##########################################
>
>============ Checking for gcc version ============
>Result is: not found
>##########################################
>
>

You need to install gcc (the C compiler).

In light of all of the above, I would recommend that you follow the Mingw
procedure, as it explains step-by-step everything that is necessary. It will
take some time to get everything that you need in place, but you only
have to do it once. Just remember to use the current versions of xvid,
freetype, etc.

Also, www.live.com is now www.live555.com, and the --with-livelibdir option
to configure has been removed. Now, the "live" folder has to be in one of a
few specific places.  I keep the "live" folder in /usr/local/lib.

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