[MPlayer-cygwin] Cygwin & console

[Joey Parrish]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 05:58:56PM +0100, news.gmane.org wrote:
> Is there anyone who can tell me if it's possible to compile
> mplayer under cygwin without console window? I know, that
> I can use gcc option -mwindows. When I try to use it, it
> compiles ok and there is no console, but mplayer behavies
> incorrectly. I mean it looks like there are many keys
> events and after short period of time mplayer quits.

Yes.  You should "#define HAVE_NO_POSIX_SELECT 1" so that the mingw
version of the fifo code gets used.  I think that should be enough,
IIRC.  I had to do this for my packages, and before I did I saw the
exact same problems you are describing.

--Joey

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