[mythtv] Changes needed for Compilation on Cygwin

[Robert Johnston]

On 3/31/06, Mario Limonciello <mario.mailing at gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay from what I can make sense of here on my DVD.
>
> I built everything under MinGW, cygwin just turned into a mess.  I
> compiled QT myself so as to make sure I could get every library I needed
> with it.
>
> I had a list of patches that I will send you offlist that I needed when
> compiling it.  If the version in cygwin has SQL, zlib and jpeg support
> though you won't need to worry about this.
>
>
> As for other deps, you will need
> libmp3lame, freetype, pthreads, zlib, and the directX includes.  I can
> send these offlist too.
>
> For my target, I used unix from what I remember.  The big thing is, that
> if you use unix, you will have to build under Msys.  This turns into a
> large clusterfuck really quickly though, so you'll need to be careful.
>
> Elsewise, take a look at my old posts.  They are from mario.mailing and
> from superm1 @gmail.com.
>
> If someone has some FTP space or a shell account to just scp all this up
> to and host it under http, I'd be glad to put up what I had.  Elsewise,
> ping me offlist and i'll attach it in an email.

Why not create a "Cygwin" section on the wiki and throw it up there.
--
Robert "Anaerin" Johnston