Static Compilation for Windows about baka-mplayer HOT 15 CLOSED

This is difficult; but really; if we can compile mpv for windows we can compile Baka MPlayer for windows. I'll probably get in touch with mpv devs for assistance in compiling mpv for windows on linux.

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Note for those trying to get this compiled on Windows: I have not succeeded yet myself but I will note:

if using our buildscripts in /sbin after installing mxe toolchain--note that their Qt5 Cmake files are broken; see mxe/mxe#466 quite a few of them have to be fixed in Qt5Core, Qt5Gui, Qt5Network, Qt5Svg; perhaps i'll in the next day create a sed command to do it. essentially you'd have to replace %s.lib with lib%s.a in all of Qt's cmake files located in mxe.x86_64/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32.static/qt5/lib/cmake/. Like @starks who came on IRC with the same issue I had when I was compiling.

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I couldn't seem to get Qt to pull it's library dependencies (causing large amounts of linking errors) so I cheated by pasting all of it's libraries dependencies into my LIBRARIES array; it compiled successfully but I was unable to run it in wine. I'm going to try it on a windows system just in case...

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Hi, just so you know as a part of the MXE team we are currently investigating this issue, and trying to come up with a best solution. Because CMake support is relatively new in Qt, we might have to disable the installation of Qt CMake files to avoid tricking users not knowing this situation into using them. If you are interested in fixing the CMake scripts, by all means please do.

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My futile attempts are frustrating.

I'm convinced that this SHOULD be possible with MXE. Perhaps I am not yet experienced enough in CMake; I can get everything compiled except for Baka-MPlayer--due to library dependencies not getting pulled.

If anyone has any ideas I'm open to them.

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@u8sand We have fixed the CMake issue with Qt some time ago. The major problem with Baka-MPlayer is that it's using CMake 😉. CMake doesn't have sane static dependency management like pkg-config does.

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@TimothyGu Thanks for the tip! I didn't realize that cmake had an issue with static dependency management--I'll see what I can use instead of cmake. If you have any alternatives to CMake I'm open for suggestions.

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@u8sand,

qmake might be the best suited for your purpose. Its syntax is pretty pragmatic, and it fits the following rationale:

1. does static builds nicely,
2. does Qt 5 moc etc. files nicely (qmake is made by Qt),
3. finds regular libraries like libmpv through pkg-config (I haven't tried but should work: http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qmake-project-files.html#configuration-features).

Other build systems:

• autotools: no 2
• cmake: no 1
• scons: might be good but I haven't tried it. It's getting less and less popular these days.
• waf: no 2 (it does have Qt 4 support, which is not very different from Qt 5 and there is a Qt 5 port: http://code.google.com/r/psytonx-waf/source/browse/waflib/Tools/qt5.py?r=9ef6e7fc795e4383ae62e60017e3d71489180da5. Don't know if it works though)

By the way, the baka-mplayer.exe I linked with qt manually crashed on start in Windows, and in Wine it shows something to the degree of "platform plugin windows not found" and crashed the same way.

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@TimothyGu thanks for that; I'll keep those in mind for my other projects too :)

For this project QMake it is since the .pro file is there anyway and I remember MXE has a nice way of doing the builds with qmake.

Hopefully I can have better luck with creating a baka-mplayer.exe; but thanks for the insite.

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Update:
I've just succeeded in compiling for windows with mpv.dll (the shared object) and qt static libraries. I'll most likely be working with the mpv team to complete full static compilation.

The executable ran fine in both wine and a vm of windows 7, will also test in a real version but I'm pretty convinced.

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@u8sand Nice! Did you end up using qmake or did you stick to CMake?

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@TimothyGu qmake did the trick, thanks a lot for the help.

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Funny Joshua,

I would love to try a test build. I'll send this message to your "email
address" also.

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@ConundrumAdInfinitum https://github.com/ConundrumAdInfinitum Hey want
to try a test build [image: 😸] ? If you can find my email, I'll
send you a test build ;)

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Hi Joshua I would love to try a test build and i think i sent the email to
Daniel again. What am i missing???

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Joshua Park [email protected]
wrote:

@ConundrumAdInfinitum https://github.com/ConundrumAdInfinitum Hey want
to try a test build [image: 😸] ? If you can find my email, I'll
send you a test build ;)

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