I tried to compile mpd for Windows using Cygwin. After adding some workarounds (add fake_getaddrinfo.h, check http://musicpd.org/mantis/view.php?id=1566) I was able to compile mpd. But when I tried to start it, mpd failed:
$ ./mpd.exe --stdout --verbose binding to any address flushing warning messages done flushing warning messages current locale is "C" setting filesystem charset to ISO-8859-1 setFsCharset: fs charset is: ISO-8859-1 reading DB opening pid file 1 [main] mpd 1736 C:\cygwin\home\mpx\mpd-test\mpd.exe: *** fatal error - MapViewOfFileEx (0x19030000), Win3 2 error 6. Terminating. 68 [main] mpd 676 fork: child 1736 - died waiting for dll loading, errno 11 problems fork'ing for daemon! cygserver is running and i did a "$ export CYGWIN=server " I traced down the error in the file player.c, source: static int playerInit(void) { ... LOG(" debug playerInit: 10\n"); pid = player_pid; if (pid > 0) { kill(pid, SIGCONT); pc->wait = 0; return 0; } LOG(" debug playerInit: 20\n"); player_pid = fork(); <<<<<<<<<<< CRASH LOG(" debug playerInit: 30 (pid: %i/%i)\n", pid, player_pid); blockSignals(); LOG(" debug playerInit: 31 \n"); if (player_pid==0) any hints? regards -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/