[MPlayer-cygwin] Re: compiling mplayer with freetype?

[Sven Köhler]

>>I'd like to improve my skills in compiling mplayer. I remember that you
>>guys released a cygwin-build some time ago. I'd really like mplayer to
>>be part of the official cygwin-distribution. So i'm perhaps going to
>>offer myself on the cygwin-mailinglist to get the mplayer package
>>maintainer.
> 
> That would be great.

Well, i didn't ask on the cygwin mailinglist yet. I will do so, if i get 
my first real build working.

> The freetype thing is a bit tricky.

I'm really confused at the moment. Although i could compile faad and 
freetype i don't get any DLL files. Instead it seems that i get static 
libraries although configure says, that the default of "--enable-shared" 
is "yes".
I'm not yet sure, if it is better to use DLLs or just link against 
static libs. I guess my cygwin mplayer package should be independant as 
long as there are no official freetype/faad/libogg packages for cygwin.

> Afair I had to adjust
> freetype-config to get freetype detected by configure.

Well, i don't know what you mean. What is "freetype-config"?
I tried to include the header files with --with-extraincdir and 
--with-extralibdir cause i've compiled faad and freetype to /opt/faad 
and /opt/freetype (well i know that the opt directory wasn't designed 
for that). mplayer's configure could find faad, but is says "no" for 
freetype.

> In my opinion a cygwin binary package
> should be
> - compiled with runtime cpudetection

i agree. i already tryed that for my latest builds.

> - binary real, dmo, dshow, quicktime codec support (wait until we applied
> the patch to get them loaded from /usr/local/lib/codecs)

well, that sounds like a lot of work to do for me.

> - freetype support

my builds still lack freetype :-(

> - ogg, faad, libavcodec support

that's seems to be the easiest part.