[mythtv-users] Cross-compiled win32 binaries failing to run

[Mark Boyum]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Markus Mattinen <thechoris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello mythtv-users,
>>
>> I've been trying to cross-compile Mythtv master branch (mainly interested in
>> the frontend) for Windows.
>> Compiling works fine, but the resulting .exe just doesn't seem to do
>> anything (it exits immediately without any error messages).
>> Cross-compiling was done in mingw32 on my laptop with 64bit Arch Linux and
>> Core i5 450M cpu.
>> I tried running the .exe in both Wine on the laptop and Windows 7 on my
>> desktop (64 bit Windows 7 Home Premium, Core i3 2100 cpu).
>>
>> For compiling, I was following the instructions on this site:
>> http://www.softsystem.co.uk/mythtv/index.htm
>> using the build script in
>> http://www.softsystem.co.uk/download/mythtv/mythbuild-CURRENT.zip.
>> I also tried the other guide that involves installing Mingw32&MSys on
>> Windows, but that one resulted in a bunch of "out of memory" errors in make
>> and ld.exe (I have 8GB of RAM on the Windows desktop, so must be that
>> 2GB/process limitation in 32 bit Windows processes).
>> I did eventually manage to compile a release version, but running the
>> resulting mythfrontend.exe resulted in the error "The application was unable
>> to start correctly (0xc0000142). Click OK to close the application."
>> Apparently something to do with failing to load DLLs?
>> I never managed to compile a debug version on Windows because of the ld.exe
>> out of memory problems.
>>
>> Any help or suggestions would be welcome.
>> If some more information or log/debug output is needed, I can try to get it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Markus Mattinen
>> thechoris at gmail.com
>
> I can't directly answer your question, but this site has some
> pre-compiled if that helps:
>
> http://members.iinet.net.au/~davco/

I've been using binaries downloaded from
http://mythtvwindows.sourceforge.net/ for about a week with great
success.  I'm only using the frontend to watch recordings on a laptop
but haven't had any major issues.

-Mark