HOW-TO: Compile Mplayer.dll

Prerequisites

• MinGW
• MSYS
• TortoiseSVN

Getting Source

Using TortoiseSVN

If you have TortoiseSVN, you can skip the first two steps.

• Get TortoiseSVN installer from the TortoiseSVN site
• Install TortoiseSVN
• Right click in a directory and click "SVN Checkout"
• Enter URL of repository: https://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xbmc/trunk/mplayer/ in the dialogue window. (Note this will only download the Mplayer branch)

Building Mplayer

Build Environment Setup

To build mplayer you need to download and install msys.

• Get MingW 4.1.0 from SourceForge
• Run and Choose Full (It will download about 45mb in total)
• Get MSYS from SourceForge
• Install MinGW to C:\MinGW (The root is the best place)
• Install MSYS
• Complete the questions you get after the install in a command window
• Get GCC Core 3.4.4 from SourceForge
• Extract GCC-Core to a temporary folder, then copy bin,lib and libexec to the MinGW folder and overwrite

You should now have both the source and the building environment to compile a Mplayer.dll

Making the Mplayer.dll

This part of the how to assumes that you did install MinGW to C:\MinGW and download Mplayer to c:\mplayer-xbmc

• Run MSYS.BAT (located in C:\Msys\Msys.bat)
• Command Window should show type cd /c/mplayer-xbmc
• Type ./configurexbmc --disable-libavformat (Use the --disable-libavformat to shrink the dll further. May cause compability issues with certain codecs, yet to be determined)
• Wait till that finshes, with luck it should have no errors/problems
• Type make
• Type makedll
• Type exit