[MPlayer-users] how to compile mplayer for cygwin

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 11:42:05PM +0000, Stephen Sheldon wrote:
> However when I use the x86_64-w64-mingw32-* tool chain to produce a 64-bit
> mplayer, it is necessary to specify windres, ar, and ranlib.  Without ar and
> ranlib, I got this error:

Yes, that I can imagine, the tools somehow need to know that they are
supposed to create 64-bit code and not 32-bit.
Though in principle at least in this case they _should_ be able to
autodetect it, so maybe it's just a case of the default Cygwin tools
being too outdated to support 64 bit code at all.