Cross Compiling to Windows ========================== Cross compiling mpv to Windows is supported with MinGW-w64. This can be used to produce both 32 bit and 64 bit executables. MinGW-w64 is available from http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net. You have to run mpv's configure with these arguments: ```bash DEST_OS=win32 TARGET=i686-w64-mingw32 ./waf configure ``` While building a complete MinGW-w64 toolchain yourself is possible, people have created scripts to help ease the process. These are the two recommended methods: - Using [mingw-w64-cmake](https://github.com/lachs0r/mingw-w64-cmake) to setup a MinGW-w64 environment. We recommend you to try this first before MXE. mingw-w64-cmake will also build mpv and its dependencies. - Alternatively, you can use MXE: http://mxe.cc. With MXE, you have to manually set the target to MinGW-w64 (even if you compile to 32 bit). A working example below. **Warning**: the original MinGW (http://www.mingw.org) is unsupported. Note that MinGW environments included in Linux distributions are often broken, outdated and useless, and usually don't use MinGW-w64. Additional dependencies ----------------------- You need a pthread wrapper. It must be interoperable with native Windows threads. pthreads-win32 or MinGW pthreads might work. If you want ``--input-file=...`` to work, you need libwaio. It's available from: git://midipix.org/waio Example with MXE ---------------- ```bash # Download MXE. Note that compiling the required packages requires about 1.4 GB # or more! cd /opt git clone https://github.com/mxe/mxe mingw cd mingw # 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" >> settings.mk # If you want to build 64 bit version, use this: # echo "MXE_TARGETS := x86_64-w64-mingw32" >> settings.mk # Build required packages. The following provide a minimum required to build # mpv. make gcc ffmpeg libass jpeg pthreads # Add MXE binaries to $PATH export PATH=/opt/mingw/usr/bin/:$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-gcc). cd .. git clone https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv.git cd mpv DEST_OS=win32 TARGET=i686-w64-mingw32 ./waf configure # Or, if 64 bit version, # DEST_OS=win32 TARGET=x86_64-w64-mingw32 ./waf configure ./waf build ```