CMake-based MinGW-w64 Cross Toolchain

This thing’s primary use is to build Windows binaries of mpv.

Alternatively, you can download the builds from here.

Prerequisites

• You should also install Ninja and use CMake’s Ninja build file generator. It’s not only much faster than GNU Make, but also far less error-prone, which is important for this project because CMake’s ExternalProject module tends to generate makefiles which confuse GNU Make’s jobserver thingy.

• As a build environment, any modern Linux distribution should work.

• Compiling on Cygwin / MSYS2 is supported, but it tends to be slower than compiling on Linux.

Information about packages

• Git/Hg

  • ANGLE
  • FFmpeg
  • xz
  • x264
  • x265 (multilib)
  • uchardet
  • rubberband
  • opus
  • openal-soft
  • mpv
  • luajit
  • libvpx
  • libwebp
  • libpng
  • libsoxr
  • libzimg (with graphengine)
  • libdvdread
  • libdvdnav
  • libdvdcss
  • libudfread
  • libbluray
  • libunibreak
  • libass
  • libmysofa
  • lcms2
  • lame
  • harfbuzz
  • game-music-emu
  • freetype2
  • flac
  • opus-tools
  • mujs
  • libarchive
  • libjpeg
  • shaderc (with spirv-headers, spirv-tools, glslang)
  • vulkan-header
  • vulkan
  • spirv-cross
  • fribidi
  • nettle
  • curl
  • libxml2
  • amf-headers
  • avisynth-headers
  • nvcodec-headers
  • libmfx
  • megasdk (with termcap, readline, cryptopp, sqlite, libuv, libsodium)
  • aom
  • dav1d
  • libplacebo (with glad)
  • fontconfig
  • libbs2b
  • libssh
  • libsrt
  • libjxl (with brotli, highway)
  • libmodplug
  • libsixel

• Zip

  • expat (2.4.8)
  • bzip (1.0.8)
  • zlib (1.2.12)
  • xvidcore (1.3.7)
  • vorbis (1.3.7)
  • speex (1.2.1)
  • ogg (1.3.5)
  • lzo (2.10)
  • libopenmpt (0.6.4)
  • libiconv (1.17)
  • gmp (6.2.1)
  • vapoursynth (R59)
  • libsdl2 (2.0.22)
  • mbedtls (3.2.1)
  • ~~libressl (3.1.5)~~

Setup Build Environment

Manjaro / Arch Linux

These packages need to be installed first before compiling mpv:

pacman -S git gyp mercurial subversion ninja cmake meson ragel yasm nasm asciidoc enca gperf unzip p7zip gcc-multilib clang python-pip curl lib32-glib2

pip3 install rst2pdf mako

Ubuntu Linux / WSL (Windows 10)

apt-get install build-essential checkinstall bison flex gettext git mercurial subversion ninja-build gyp cmake yasm nasm automake pkg-config libtool libtool-bin gcc-multilib g++-multilib clang libgmp-dev libmpfr-dev libmpc-dev libgcrypt-dev gperf ragel texinfo autopoint re2c asciidoc python3-pip docbook2x unzip p7zip-full curl

pip3 install rst2pdf meson mako

Note:

• Use apt-fast if apt-get is too slow.
• It is advised to use bash over dash. Set sudo ln -sf /bin/bash /bin/sh. Revert back by sudo ln -sf /bin/dash /bin/sh.
• On WSL platform, compiling 32bit require qemu. Refer to this.
• To update package installed by pip, run pip3 install <package> --upgrade.

Cygwin

Download Cygwin installer and run:

setup-x86_64.exe -R "C:\cygwin64" -q --packages="bash,binutils,bzip2,cygwin,gcc-core,gcc-g++,cygwin32-gcc-core,cygwin32-gcc-g++,gzip,m4,pkg-config,make,unzip,zip,diffutils,wget,git,patch,cmake,gperf,yasm,nasm,enca,asciidoc,bison,flex,gettext-devel,mercurial,python-devel,python-docutils,docbook2X,texinfo,libmpfr-devel,libgmp-devel,libmpc-devel,libtool,autoconf2.5,automake,automake1.9,libxml2-devel,libxslt-devel"

Additionally, some packages, re2c, ninja, ragel, gyp, rst2pdf need to be installed manually.

MSYS2

Install MSYS2 and run it via MSYS2 MSYS shortcut. Don't use MSYS2 MinGW 32-bit or MSYS2 MinGW 64-bit shortcuts, that's important!

These packages need to be installed first before compiling mpv:

pacman -S base-devel cmake gcc yasm nasm git mercurial subversion gyp tar gmp-devel mpc-devel mpfr-devel python zlib-devel unzip zip p7zip

Don't install anything from the mingw32 and mingw64 repositories, it's better to completely disable them in /etc/pacman.conf just to be safe.

Additionally, some packages, re2c, ninja, ragel, libjpeg, rst2pdf need to be installed manually.

Building Software (First Time)

To set up the build environment, create a directory to store build files in:

mkdir build64
cd build64

Once you’ve changed into that directory, run CMake, e.g.

cmake -DTARGET_ARCH=x86_64-w64-mingw32 -G Ninja ..

add -DGCC_ARCH=x86-64-v3 to commandline if you want to compile gcc with new x86-64-v3 instructions. Other value like native, znver3 should work too in theory.

or for 32bit:

cmake -DTARGET_ARCH=i686-w64-mingw32 -G Ninja ..

First, you need to build toolchain. By default, it will be installed in install folder. This take ~20 minutes on my 4-core machine.

ninja gcc

After it done, you're ready to build mpv and all its dependencies:

ninja mpv

This will take a while (about ~10 minutes on my machine).

On WSL2, you might see it stuck with 100% disk usage and never finished. To fix it, build package shaderc, spirv-cross and harfbuzz separately first before mpv.

The final build64 folder's size will be around ~3GB.

Building Software (Second Time)

To build mpv for a second time:

ninja update

After that, build mpv as usual:

ninja mpv

This will also build all packages that mpv depends on.

Available Commands

package is package's name found in packages folder.

Acknowledgements

This project originally created and maintained lachs0r. Since then, it heavily modified to suit my own need.