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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 20:36:56 +0000 |
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diff --git a/DOCS/compile-windows.md b/DOCS/compile-windows.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..04bc200 --- /dev/null +++ b/DOCS/compile-windows.md @@ -0,0 +1,214 @@ +Compiling for Windows +===================== + +Compiling for Windows is supported with MinGW-w64. This can be used to produce +both 32-bit and 64-bit executables, and it works for building on Windows and +cross-compiling from Linux and Cygwin. MinGW-w64 is available from: +https://www.mingw-w64.org/ + +While building a complete MinGW-w64 toolchain yourself is possible, there are a +few build environments and scripts to help ease the process, such as MSYS2 and +MXE. Note that MinGW environments included in Linux distributions are often +broken, outdated and useless, and usually don't use MinGW-w64. + +**Warning**: the original MinGW (https://osdn.net/projects/mingw/) is unsupported. + +Cross-compilation +================= + +When cross-compiling, it is recommended to use a meson crossfile to setup +the cross compiling environment. A minimal example is included below: + +```ini +[binaries] +c = 'x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc' +cpp = 'x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++' +ar = 'x86_64-w64-mingw32-ar' +strip = 'x86_64-w64-mingw32-strip' +exe_wrapper = 'wine64' + +[host_machine] +system = 'windows' +cpu_family = 'x86_64' +cpu = 'x86_64' +endian = 'little' +``` + +See [meson's documentation](https://mesonbuild.com/Cross-compilation.html) for +more information. + +[MXE](https://mxe.cc) makes it very easy to bootstrap a complete MingGW-w64 +environment from a Linux machine. See a working example below. + +Alternatively, you can try [mpv-winbuild-cmake](https://github.com/shinchiro/mpv-winbuild-cmake), +which bootstraps a MinGW-w64 environment and builds mpv and dependencies. + +Example with MXE +---------------- + +```bash +# Before starting, make sure you install MXE prerequisites. MXE will download +# and build all target dependencies, but no host dependencies. For example, +# you need a working compiler, or MXE can't build the crosscompiler. +# +# Refer to +# +# https://mxe.cc/#requirements +# +# Scroll down for disto/OS-specific instructions to install them. + +# Download MXE. Note that compiling the required packages requires about 1.4 GB +# or more! + +cd /opt +git clone https://github.com/mxe/mxe mxe +cd mxe + +# Set build options. + +# The JOBS environment variable controls threads to use when building. DO NOT +# use the regular `make -j4` option with MXE as it will slow down the build. +# Alternatively, you can set this in the make command by appending "JOBS=4" +# to the end of command: +echo "JOBS := 4" >> settings.mk + +# The MXE_TARGET environment variable builds MinGW-w64 for 32 bit targets. +# Alternatively, you can specify this in the make command by appending +# "MXE_TARGETS=i686-w64-mingw32" to the end of command: +echo "MXE_TARGETS := i686-w64-mingw32.static" >> settings.mk + +# If you want to build 64 bit version, use this: +# echo "MXE_TARGETS := x86_64-w64-mingw32.static" >> settings.mk + +# Build required packages. The following provide a minimum required to build +# a reasonable mpv binary (though not an absolute minimum). + +make gcc ffmpeg libass jpeg lua luajit + +# Add MXE binaries to $PATH +export PATH=/opt/mxe/usr/bin/:$PATH + +# Build mpv. The target will be used to automatically select the name of the +# build tools involved (e.g. it will use i686-w64-mingw32.static-gcc). + +cd .. +git clone https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv.git +cd mpv +meson setup build --crossfile crossfile +meson compile -C build +``` + +Native compilation with MSYS2 +============================= + +For Windows developers looking to get started quickly, MSYS2 can be used to +compile mpv natively on a Windows machine. The MSYS2 repositories have binary +packages for most of mpv's dependencies, so the process should only involve +building mpv itself. + +To build 64-bit mpv on Windows: + +Installing MSYS2 +---------------- + +1. Download an installer from https://www.msys2.org/ + + Both the i686 and the x86_64 version of MSYS2 can build 32-bit and 64-bit + mpv binaries when running on a 64-bit version of Windows, but the x86_64 + version is preferred since the larger address space makes it less prone to + fork() errors. + +2. Start a MinGW-w64 shell (``mingw64.exe``). **Note:** This is different from + the MSYS2 shell that is started from the final installation dialog. You must + close that shell and open a new one. + + For a 32-bit build, use ``mingw32.exe``. + +Updating MSYS2 +-------------- + +To prevent errors during post-install, the MSYS2 core runtime must be updated +separately. + +```bash +# Check for core updates. If instructed, close the shell window and reopen it +# before continuing. +pacman -Syu + +# Update everything else +pacman -Su +``` + +Installing mpv dependencies +--------------------------- + +```bash +# Install MSYS2 build dependencies and a MinGW-w64 compiler +pacman -S git $MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX-{python,pkgconf,gcc,meson} + +# Install the most important MinGW-w64 dependencies. libass and lcms2 are also +# pulled in as dependencies of ffmpeg. +pacman -S $MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX-{ffmpeg,libjpeg-turbo,luajit} +``` + +Building mpv +------------ + +Finally, compile and install mpv. Binaries will be installed to +``/mingw64/bin`` or ``/mingw32/bin``. + +```bash +meson setup build --prefix=$MSYSTEM_PREFIX +meson compile -C build +``` + +Or, compile and install both libmpv and mpv: + +```bash +meson setup build -Dlibmpv=true --prefix=$MSYSTEM_PREFIX +meson compile -C build +meson install -C build +``` + +Linking libmpv with MSVC programs +--------------------------------- + +mpv/libmpv cannot be built with Visual Studio (Microsoft is too incompetent to +support C99/C11 properly and/or hates open source and Linux too much to +seriously do it). But you can build C++ programs in Visual Studio and link them +with a libmpv built with MinGW. + +To do this, you need a Visual Studio which supports ``stdint.h`` (recent ones do), +and you need to create a import library for the mpv DLL: + +```bash +lib /name:mpv-1.dll /out:mpv.lib /MACHINE:X64 +``` + +The string in the ``/name:`` parameter must match the filename of the DLL (this +is simply the filename the MSVC linker will use). + +Static linking is not possible. + +Running mpv +----------- + +If you want to run mpv from the MinGW-w64 shell, you will find the experience +much more pleasant if you use the ``winpty`` utility + +```bash +pacman -S winpty +winpty mpv.com ToS-4k-1920.mov +``` + +If you want to move / copy ``mpv.exe`` and ``mpv.com`` to somewhere other than +``/mingw64/bin/`` for use outside the MinGW-w64 shell, they will still depend on +DLLs in that folder. The simplest solution is to add ``C:\msys64\mingw64\bin`` +to the windows system ``%PATH%``. Beware though that this can cause problems or +confusion in Cygwin if that is also installed on the machine. + +Use of the ANGLE OpenGL backend requires a copy of the D3D compiler DLL that +matches the version of the D3D SDK that ANGLE was built with +(``d3dcompiler_43.dll`` in case of MinGW-built ANGLE) in the path or in the +same folder as mpv. It must be of the same architecture (x86_64 / i686) as the +mpv you compiled. |