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DJGPP query... (Developers)

posted by Oso2k, 03.10.2021, 03:00

> Hello glennmcc, hello Oso2k,
>
> > > Why not try compiling w/Windows 95 or 98?
> > Ain't got 'em.
> > I completely rid my systems of MS quite a few years ago.
>
> There is probably no need to use Win95 or Win98. From the looks of it, the
> compilation process was actualy working — there were just some issues
> that with the mplayer source code that caused it to conflict with DJGPP's C
> header files.
>
> More precisely, the mplayer source code was — for some reason —
> defining functions trunc(.) and truncf(.), but the C library had already
> defined these, and so there was a conflict.
>
> (Perhaps the mplayer code decided to define these functions because it
> erroneously thought that they were not defined? Newer versions of the
> mplayer source code might have resolved this problem some way or other.)
>
> Thank you!


Ahh. My only point in suggesting Win9x was that if it was slow disk access causing delay, then Win9x & XP tend to have better file system access code.

Another thing to try would be Andrew Wu’s djgpp on Linux cross compilers. You might even be able to use parallel build flags.

Or, run djgpp on Linux with DOSBox.

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