Well, I spent last evening working on it. The problem is that MinGW comes with GCC 3.4.4/5 and that just won't fly for me with mplayer (or many other things for that matter). It overlays everything once you install a new version, executables, headers, whatever. I haven't the foggiest clue why the MinGW people deliver that old of a compiler (won't accept a lot of march= arguments, those machines didn't even exist when that compiler build was current). I got it mostly set up (GCC 4.2). Decided to build all the prereq libraries for codecs and filters, too, so I am not dependent on binaries there and can benefit from any updates. I got it compiled, missing a few things like faac (odd compilation errors for that one) but should have that sorted out tonight. I'll give you feedback then. If I run into a stumbling block I'll give your build a whirl so you know how things look. Somewhere I read something about licensing restrictions/incompatibilities between faac and at least ffmpeg, maybe mplayer as well. Do you know something about that? Maybe I'll write up something myself re: Build on MinGW once I complete this. The old guides I found are definitely no longer applicable. Thanks again for all your help. /re On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Reimar D?ffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de>wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 07:07:38PM -0600, Rolf Ernst wrote: > > > I think you'll have to update your MinGW installation, I think > mingw-runtime > > > 3.15 is what's required > > > > > > > > > Will do, although I compiled two days ago ... > > > > > > Thanks for your patience. Alles gute ... > > > > > > You are correct. It seems to require a higher version (first time > usleep is > > used). Sort of throws me a curve ball as it took me days to set up an > > environment that would actually compile mplayer (the gnu compiler doesn't > > work) and now I can't get the thing to configure any longer. > > Hm.. it really shouldn't be so much of an issue. > Just doing a default install of MinGW and MSYS without doing anything > special should allow you to compile MPlayer - even though you might want > to add support for a few more things (in particular the patch to properly > support > 2GB files http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer/misc/file64_mingw.diff). > And since you already had it running, it _should_ only be a matter of > running > the mingw installer again and let it update everything... > Well, maybe it still isn't quite as easy, maybe I should try to do a > up-to-date > guide again one of these days - though I am just using cross-compilation > with > Gentoo these days. > > > Well, maybe I'll wait for someone to throw out another binary. > > For files <= 2GB (larger files will have issues with seeking) I can offer > you > this build, so you can at least test if everything now works again: > http://natsuki.mplayerhq.hu/~reimar/mplayer-i586.exe<http://natsuki.mplayerhq.hu/%7Ereimar/mplayer-i586.exe> > _______________________________________________ > MPlayer-users mailing list > MPlayer-users at mplayerhq.hu > https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users > -- /re The things that come to those that wait were left there by those that got there first.
