[MPlayer-users] Compiling on cygwin

[Sycotic Smith]

Brian,
> I am having the same exact problem with trying to compile on cygwin. Could
> you send me the patch that Sycotic sent you? I would like to try it too.

The patch I was referring to was to be abl to use SDL (Simplemedia Direct Layer or you can stfw)

> what does Sycotic mean by SDL? I don't know what that is either?

SDL is one of the output devices (ao && vo) that can be used with mplayer.  Read through the docs, maybe do a search on them for SDL and you can find out how to get it as well.
> let me know if you get any farther. I will try as well and let you know
> too..
> thanks,
> brian

As far as the patch goes, it is a simple edit of the config.mak file AFTER running configure.  Make sure to NOT SEND BUG REPORTS for this as it is NOT SUPPORTED by the authors due to the edit on an automagically updated file.  See DOCS and comments in the file for details.

Changes to config.mak (maybe this should be put into CVS version for cygwin?)  This was given to me by Atmos, it is NOT SUPPORTED by mplayer/mencoder authors!  I cannot emphasize this point enough.
config.mak:
Line 51: SDL_LIB = -L/usr/local/lib -lSDLmain -lSDL -mwindows -mcygwin
Line 72: SDL_INC = -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/SDL -Dmain=SDL_main -DWIN32 -Uunix
(Of course, if you do not have SDL, you should comment those lines out if they are not already.)

/S. Smith
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