[MPlayer-cygwin] mplayer and X11

[Chris Taylor]

> 
> I've been trying all afternoon to get the gui version of mplayer 
> configured. This is what I get:
> 
> Checking for X11 headers presence ... yes (using /usr/X11R6/include)
> Checking for X11 libs presence ... not found (check if the dev(el) 
> packages are installed)
> Checking for X11 ... no
> 
> but in /usr/X11R6/lib I have a bunch of files whose listing I have 
> included as a text attachment. I thought that maybe I had to download 
> the source code for X11 and so used setup.exe to do that 
> (source code is 
> in /usr/src) but I still get the above error. Any ideas?
> 
> 
> Rohan
> 
> 

Easy to fix.. :-)
I had the same problem initially.
It turns out it doesn't look there by default, you have to tell it to.
Append the option --with-x11libdir=/usr/X11R6/lib

Do you have the gtk+ packages installed? If not, use
http://cygnome.sourceforge.net/install as a cygwin setup source/mirror.

Chris (goes to change list subscription address)