[mythtv] Ticket #4270: MythTV on Windows (with MinGW)

buzz davidbuzz at gmail.com
Wed Dec 26 07:17:38 UTC 2007


FYI to others -  the missing 'pr' command under Win32 requires the
optional/extra mingw/msys 'coreutils' package to be installed.  I did this
but forgot to document it, clearly Andrei did too.

It's in the wiki now (step 3c).

I've also added a new section to the bottom of the page  "problems others
have encountered" with 5 different issues others/I have encountered so far.

Could all Win32 developer/wantabee's please add errors (and hopefully
resolutions) there as you find them? thanks.

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Windows_Port#Problems_others_have_encountered

Buzz.
ps. merry christmas to all for yesterday!


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Jay Modi" <jaymode at gmail.com>
To: "Development of mythtv" <mythtv-dev at mythtv.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 14:47:56 -0500
Subject: Re: [mythtv] Ticket #4270: MythTV on Windows (with MinGW)
I can not get the instructions from the HOWTO on the wiki to work for me. I
have simplified what I am doing to try to get to the root cause of the
issue.
1. Download MINGW and select full install. Install DIR = D:\MinGW
2. Download MSYS and install to D:\msys\1.0\
3. Download updated bash and zlib. Extract into D:\msys\1.0
4. Install tortoise svn
5. Checkout mythtv from svn
6. Download freetype and compile with ./configure --prefix=/usr && make &&
make install
7. Go to the mythtv directory and run

 ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-dbox2 --disable-hdhomerun \
 --disable-dvb --disable-ivtv --disable-iptv --disable-joystick-menu \
 --disable-xvmc-vld --disable-x11 --disable-xvmc --enable-directx \
 --enable-memalign-hack --cpu=k8 --compile-type=debug

When I first run this I get an error like "pr: command not found", so I
download coreutils from the msys page and get pr.exe from there and place it
in D:\msys\1.0\bin. I rerun the same command and then I get this error:

ERROR! You must have FreeType installed to compile MythTV.
If you think configure made a mistake, make sure you are using the latest
version from SVN.  If the latest version fails, report the problem to the
mythtv-dev at mythtv.org mailing list or IRC #mythtv on irc.freenode.net
Include the log file "config.err" produced by configure as this will help
solving the problem

My libs are in D:\msys\1.0\bin and the include files are in
D:\msys\1.0\include. I have tried moving them to the D:\MinGW directory but
that has not worked.

I have tried going through all of the steps in the Wiki but always come out
with this er
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