[MPlayer-cygwin] Re: MPlayer-cygwin Digest, Vol 22, Issue 19

[Sascha Sommer]

On Thursday 28 October 2004 11:31, Asonganyi Defang Ngunyi wrote:
> Thanks to Sascha Sommer and Joseph Miller for the
> quick reply. INfact now i have got mplayer up and
> running like i has wanted. but this has made me to
> realise two problems to which i had never paid
> attention to.
>
>
> 1. Is it possible for me to get mplayer compiled by
> the  binaries of mingw from http://www.mingw.org/? In
> this case i also installed the unxutils on the system.
>
> I am asking this question because i get a lot  errors
> by 'sed.exe' and 'as.exe' when i tried that. infact
> the './configure' always failed and never completed
> itself.

Use msys to configure MPlayer.

> 2. How do i get header files for directx version 9.
> all i see on the internet are just the binaries for
> windows and not header files. I think what i have
> right now is version 7.
>

The headers at
http://mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32-beta/contrib/dx7headers.tgz
are enough. DirectDraw did not change since version 7.

Sascha