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DJGPP query... (Developers)

posted by glennmcc Homepage E-mail, North Jackson, Ohio (USA), 01.10.2021, 01:23

> > Got a query for those whom are well-versed in DJGPP.
> >
> > How long should it take to build mplayer.exe
> > using the source code provided by Khusraw back in 2012 ?
> >
> > My i7 machine is booted to OpenDos7.01,
> > everything is on a FAT16 partition, doslfn.com is loaded.
> >
> > My 1st attempt to build mplayer.exe stopped at looking for WATT32
> >
> > Got WATT32 source in-place and the next attempt stopped looking for
> > the freetype fonts needed for the subtitles etc.
> >
> > Got the freetype font in-place,
> > the current attempt has now been running continuously
> > (as is indicated by the constant flickering of the HDD light), for over
> > 46hrs
> >
> > No change on-screen because I'm using STDERR.EXE to redirect
> > all screen output into a text file to examine later for any errors.
> >
> > http://glennmcc.dynu.com/my-stuff/images/DJGPP.jpg
>
> Something seems very wrong if the compile is taking 46 hours on an i7. I
> would think an i7 could compile that code in 4.6 minutes, or at most 46
> minutes. Unless you're compiling to something very, very slow like a USB
> memory stick and / or with very poor read / write speeds, I'd say you are
> stuck in some kind of loop.
Nope... no USB memory stick... FAT16 HDD

Well... it has now been 48hrs and 10min
So, I'll now stop it and check the TXT file for errors.

>
> This is why I don't like to compile sourcecode, but so much prefer it when
> people provide their own binaries of their code! Unless you're going to be
> modifying the code extensively, at the very least the author would do all a
> great favor by compiling the vanilla sourcecode for us. I know Khusraw did
> provide us binaries, so I'm not singling him out. But, many times it's hard
> to impossible for end users to compile source code correctly, and / or
> takes an enormous amount of work and a huge toolchain to get it compiled,
> especially in operating systems like DOS. There's a lot of great stuff
> posted on github, but I've tried and failed more often than not to get code
> to compile, and just thrown in the towel, wishing beyond all, that authors
> had provided pre-compiled binaries of their posted code.
As to code modifications.... Yep, that is my plan.

But first I wanted to compile the code as-is before making any changes.

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