[MPlayer-cygwin] Re: Cygwin & console

[Joey Parrish]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 10:56:39AM +0100, mrSHADOW wrote:
> Joey Parrish writes:
> >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.
> 
> Thank you for the tip, but no it doesn't help :(
> Actually nothing changed using other fifo.

Then also try to enable getch2-win32 in osdep.
I do both, but can't recall which one was the important one.
Try both and let me know how it works.

--Joey

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