[mythtv-users] Re: anyone attempt mythfrontend on Cygwin?

[Joel Anderson]

> Once i got QT (X11) up and running, I installed DirectX for cygwin,
> and downloaded myth CVS.  There is a problem downloading from CVS,
> windows doesnt seem to appreciate the name "G.A.N.T."   Too many
> periods would be my guess, but I don't know.  I downloaded CVS source
> from a real.... er i mean, linux machine and renamed that directory
> and copied over.
> 
> To get the compilation to Start working,
> 1) Disabled IVTV
> 2) Disabled x11 ( there is no xinerama support i believe for libmythtv )
> 3) enabled win32
> 4) enabled directx
> all under settings.pro
> 
> Libavcodec seems to compile fine, and like joel had run into,
> libavformat doesn't seem to compile.  I made a few changes to
> libavformat.pro:
> 
> FROM:
> ------------
>        LIBS += -L../libavcodec -lmythavcodec-$$LIBVERSION
> ------------
> TO:
> -----------
> !win32{
>        LIBS += -L../libavcodec -lmythavcodec-$$LIBVERSION
> }
> 
> win32{
>        LIBS += -L../libavcodec -l
> ../libavcodec/cygmythavcodec-$${LIBVERSION}-0.dll.a
> }
> -----------
> 
> I still got compiling problems:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Mario Limonciello at supermario /tmp/mythtv/libs/libavformat
> $ make
> test -d  || mkdir -p
> rm -f cygmythavformat-0.16-0.dll libmythavformat-0.16.a
> libmythavformat-0.16.dll.a
> g++ -Wl,--enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc -shared
> -Wl,-soname,cygmythavformat-0.16-0.dll -o cygmythavformat-0.16-0.dll
> 4xm.o allformats.o asf.o au.o avidec.o avienc.o avio.o aviobuf.o crc.o
> cutils.o dv.o ffm.o file.o flvdec.o flvenc.o idcin.o idroq.o img.o
> ipmovie.o mov.o movenc.o mp3.o mpeg.o mpegts.o mpegtsenc.o mpjpeg.o
> nut.o os_support.o rm.o psxstr.o raw.o flic.o audio.o segafilm.o swf.o
> utils.o wav.o wc3movie.o westwood.o yuv4mpeg.o sierravmd.o asf-enc.o
> matroska.o img2.o   -L/opt/qt/3.2/qt-x11-free-3.2.3/lib
> -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L../libavcodec -l
> ../libavcodec/cygmythavcodec-0.16-0.dll.a -lqt-mt -lXext -lX11
> -lpthread
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.3/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld:
> cannot find -l../libavcodec/cygmythavcodec-0.16-0.dll.a
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [cygmythavformat-0.16-0.dll] Error 1
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Even though it is quite clear that the file does exist:
> ------------------------------------------------
> $ ls ../libavcodec/ -alh | grep cyg
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 Mario Li None         5.7M Sep 23 19:52
> cygmythavcodec-0.16-0.dll
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 Mario Li None           32 Sep 23 19:52
> libmythavcodec-0.16.dll.a -> ../bin/cygmythavcodec-0.16-0.dll
> -----------------------------------------------
> 
> I might have to jump back to just regualr myth .16 source and see if
> that helps at all.
> 

I think you just need to get rid of the ".a" on the end of the library
in the .pro file.

-- 
Joel