[MPlayer-dev-eng] MPlayer linking takes forever on MinGW

[Dave Yeo]

On 11/29/10 05:12 am, Georgi Petrov wrote:
> This "trick" (or something similar) also doesn't work:
>
> cat arguments.txt | xargs gcc -o mplayer.exe
>
> After more investigation, now I'm sure - the number of arguments is
> irrelevant. The summarized bytes of object code are. If I remove only
> 3-4 big .a libraries, ld finishes with error. However, I have to
> remove many, many, many small .o files to achieve the same.
>
> This leaves only one conclusion - I have to compile MPlayer with the
> least possible code.
>
> Well, I tried. Hard.

What about using a different linker until ld is fixed? I'd guess that 
the Microsoft linker would work and if you want to use open source there 
is the OpenWatcom linker, wlink.exe.
Dave