[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] 32 bit mplayer on 64 bit system

[Guillaume Poirier]

Hi,

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 13:38:40 -0500, D Richard Felker III
<dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 02:30:56PM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > Hi,
> > the attached patch allows to compile MPlayer as a 32 bit application on
> > a 64 bit system (if you have all neccessary libs as 32 bit variants).
> > Is it okay to apply?
> 
> I question whether it's useful at all. IMO this is a special case of
> cross-compiling, and you should just do it like any other
> cross-compiling..

I do have an AMD-64 box, but I can't test this patch for it a pure 64
system, I don't have 32-bits compilers installed.... but I'd like to
point out that to the best of my knowledge, building a 32-bits MPlayer
on a 64-bits AMD-64 system allows the use of binary only codecs (I
don't know how many still don't have an open implementation... I'd
assume, just a few....)

Now, whether or not this solution is the way to go, I truly don't know.

Regards,
Guillaume