Hi Once again i have a problem with an header file while compiling MPlayer using MinGW. This time there is the file iconv.h missing while compiling font_load_ft.c font_load_ft.c:21:19: iconv.h: No such file or directory font_load_ft.c:736: error: parse error before '*' token font_load_ft.c: In function `decode_char': font_load_ft.c:738: error: `c' undeclared (first use in this function) font_load_ft.c:738: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once font_load_ft.c:738: error: for each function it appears in.) font_load_ft.c:743: error: `cd' undeclared (first use in this function) font_load_ft.c: In function `prepare_charset': font_load_ft.c:760: error: `iconv_t' undeclared (first use in this function) font_load_ft.c:760: error: parse error before "cd" font_load_ft.c:763: error: `cd' undeclared (first use in this function) make[1]: *** [font_load_ft.o] Error 1 In libvo/font_load_ft.c, line 21: #include <iconv.h> No "#ifdef USE_ICONV" enclosing it. Above it in line 14 there is an #ifdef HAVE_FREETYPE and its #endif is at the end of the file. Does this falsely imply that ther is an libiconv installed on the system? I had a look at configure, but i could no see any checks for libiconv in the HAVE_FREETYPE chapter. Later on in font_load_ft.c you will find the function decode_char: /* decode from 'encoding' to unicode */ static FT_ULong decode_char(iconv_t *cd, char c) { char *inbuf = &c; char *outbuf = (char*)&o; int inbytesleft = 1; int outbytesleft = sizeof(FT_ULong); iconv(*cd, &inbuf, &inbytesleft, &outbuf, &outbytesleft); /* convert unicode BigEndian -> MachineEndian */ o = be2me_32(o); // if (count==-1) o = 0; // not OK, at least my iconv() returns E2BIG for all if (outbytesleft!=0) o = 0; /* we don't want control characters */ if (o>=0x7f && o<0xa0) o = 0; return o; } Here the type iconv_t which is defined in iconv.h is used The same goes for function static int prepare_charset(char *charmap, char *encoding, FT_ULong *charset, FT_ ULong *charcodes) I had a look at the Revision 1.12 of font_load_ft.c using the CVS-Web interface. There everything concerning iconv.h looks the same for me. Now i am puzzled why i used to be able tu compile mplayer before. Some information on libiconv http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/#TOCdownloading Configuration: Stefan@J5U7R1 ~/main $ ./configure --prefix=/opt/mplayer_real10 --with-win32libdir=./codecs --enabl e-real --with-reallibdir=./codecs config.h states: #undef USE_ICONV CVS checkout from February 5th, 2004, both mplayer and libavcodec Yours Stefan