[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] enable dll codec support for mingw32andcygwin

[Sascha Sommer]

> Sascha Sommer writes:
>  > > Sascha Sommer wrote:
>  > > > realcodec.patch: fixes some problems with real dlls on Windows
>  > >
>  > > Does this actually work for you?  How?
>  >
>  > Make a subdir called codecs/ into the dir where your mplayer.exe is
>  > and copy the real dlls into it. It will also search other acm dshow and
vfw
>  > codecs there.
>  > I know this is not the best solution but real dlls are normally in
>  > Gemeinsame Dateien\Real\Codecs\ or Common Files\Real\codecs ?
>  > No way to find out their location runtime without too much bloat.
>
> Hmm, I don't think we should rely on working installations of QT/Real
> etc but use our own codecs as usual.  This is especially true for
> Cygwin.  There we have a Unix environment and I expect to configure my
> applications just like on any other Unix system.  I believe it would
> be best if we could make /usr/lib/win32/ work as usual under Cygwin.
> For MinGW the situation is slightly different as we create a real
> Windows application.  <path_to_mplayer>\codecs does not sound bad in
> this case.
>

Agreed, but on the other hand if they are there, why should we duplicate
hundreds of codecs? I got a message from rune today which says that we
can get the Common Files dir with the $COMMONPROGRAMFILES
environment variable. I had no time to check this yet, but maybe we could
let
configure search for real codecs in this path?

Sascha