[MPlayer-dev-eng] Cygwin inttypes

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Fri Apr 25 09:53:54 CEST 2003


Diego Biurrun writes:
 > While playing around with Cygwin I came up with an idea for a (better?) 
 > solution for the inttypes.h problem. (On Cygwin it is necessary to put 
 > etc/cygwin_inttypes.h in /usr/include/ as inttypes.h)
 > 
 > I renamed etc/cygwin_inttypes.h to etc/inttypes.h and added the 
 > following lines to configure:
 > 
 > if cygwin ; then
 >    _inc_extra="$_inc_extra -Ietc"
 > fi
 > 
 > Works like a charm without the header file hassle.

The best solution would of course be adding inttypes.h to Cygwin and
lo and behold that is what I did.  It's amazing what you can
accomplish just by asking nicely.  I'll remove etc/cygwin_inttypes.h
once a new Cygwin release is out.

Diego



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