[MPlayer-cygwin] get_path cygwin

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 10:36:44AM -0600, Joey Parrish wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:21:41PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > Joey Parrish writes:
> > > On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 08:24:08PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > > Apparently this would be a desirable feature for Mac OS X as well to build
> > > > an app bundle (or whatever it's called), see the thread on dev-eng.
> > > 
> > > Well, OSX has to do it a different way than Windows anyway.
> > 
> > Not quite, just look at the thread
> 
> By which I meant a different API to find the executable location.

Ah, OK.

> > Apparently we have at least three platforms that could
> > benefit from loading configuration etc files from a path relative to
> > the executable, namely MinGW, Mac OS X, Cygwin and possibly others.
> > This is not a tweak for one package on one architecture so it's
> > definitely worth putting in CVS IMO.
> 
> Fair enough.
> 
> So, how about a configure-time option to use paths relative to
> executable location?  And for platforms with no support for this,
> configure can fail if enabled.  This option should be disabled by
> default, IMO.
> 
> Sound good?  If so, I'll be on it in a couple days, with support for
> MinGW/Cygwin and Linux in the first commit.  OSX folks can add support
> for that afterward.

Sounds good to me.  Maybe post to that thread and talk to the Mac OS X
people up front.

Diego