[MPlayer-users] how to compile mplayer for cygwin

[Stephen Sheldon]

Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger <at> gmx.de> writes:


> > When compiling with that compiler in Cygwin, I use all these options:
> > 
> >     --cc=i686-w64-mingw32-gcc \
> >     --windres=i686-w64-mingw32-windres \
> >     --ar=i686-w64-mingw32-ar \
> >     --ranlib=i686-w64-mingw32-ranlib \
> >     --enable-cross-compile \
> >     --target="i686-mingw32" \
> 
> target and cc are necessary,
> --enable-cross-compile probably hurts more than it does good
> (cross compiling for MPlayer means that you want to build something
> you can't run on the build machine) and the rest is just unnecessary,
> the standard windres/ar/ranlib should work just as well as the mingw
> ones.
> 

I tried configuring without "enable-cross-compile" on both x86_64-w64-mingw32-*
and i686-w64-mingw32-* builds and it worked.

However when I use the x86_64-w64-mingw32-* tool chain to produce a 64-bit
mplayer, it is necessary to specify windres, ar, and ranlib.  Without ar and
ranlib, I got this error:

o-seh -Wl,--dynamicbase  -lwinmm -ffast-math -lws2_32 -liconv -lpng -lz -ljpeg
-L/mingw64/lib -lfreetype -L/mingw64/lib -lfontconfig -lxml2 -lz -lws2_32
-lfreetype -liconv   -lz -lole32 -luuid    -L/mingw64/lib -static -lm  -mwindows
-lopengl32 -lgdi32 -lwinmm -lgdi32 -lcomdlg32 -lcomctl32 -lshell32 -lkernel32
ffmpeg/libpostproc/libpostproc.a: could not read symbols: Archive has no index;
run ranlib to add one
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [mplayer.exe] Error 1

I did create my 64-bit configure script first, and I edited it to create
the 32-bit script.