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There are some slight differences in Qt 4.6.0. Not that SMPlayer ran at all when compiled with 4.6.0 (some error with QtCore4):
- The Qt 4.6.0 SDK includes MinGW. The libraries package no longer downloads MinGW so if you use that you must already have MinGW installed.
- The default install directory is different: e.g. C:\Qt\2009.05
- The 'make' command no longer works, it's 'mingw32-make' or 'mingw32-make install'

Changed locations:
- The Qt files are actually in C:\Qt\2009.05\qt and MinGW in C:\Qt\2009.05\mingw. So the install_smplayer script has to be adjusted.

I am still not able to run smplayer on Windows.It crashes

Hello everyone,

I have to use Smplayer a lot of time both on Linux and Windows platforms and want to say thanks for such good software.
Recently I decided to try and compile Smplayer with Windows's native toolchain (VS2008 Express edition in particularly). Here is my little experience and results of work:

Toolchain: VS2008 Express Edition;
Qt: 4.8.0 (compiled from scratch with mentioned toolchain)

First of all I have noticed issue with quazip sources. Issue specifically related to workaround which was introduced to deal with non-used function arguments warning. VS2008 cl doesn't allow to declare data after operations in C code so I add small workaround for this (you can find patch with my workaround in attach).
Second issue is addressed to Smplayer crash (probably same crash as reported by dpqmw80). After some debugging I have realized that reason of crash is using of wrong main.cpp file during compilation from command line. I don't have food explanation of this right now but it looks like nmake takes first main.cpp file from list. As a result I have Smplayer which include all needed source but main function taken from src\videopreview\main.cpp file. I shall admit that this issue doesn't occur when you use MSBuild instead of nmake (probably there is a issue in smplayer.pro file and not in nmake itself).


So after all investigations I have written bat file with all instructions needed to compile Smplayer with VS2008 toolchain (please see compile_windows_vc.zip in attach). Please note that file is not production ready and need to be run from "Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt" (or you need to set all required environment variables by hand) and you shall have Qt framework under C:\Qt\4.8.0 path or set QT_DIR variable in bat file by hand.
I hope my experiment will be helpful. If using of Windows native toolchain will be considered possible I would be glad to help with this. Please feel free to contact me via email (toponim dog gmail dot com).

Hi there, recently i tries to compile smplayer using Qt 4.8.0 + Visual Studio 2010
everything went well except for ioapi.c

it says this..

findsubtitles\quazip\ioapi.c(72): error C2275: 'FILE' : illegal use of this type as an expression

anybody know how to fix this issue...

I use Qt 4.8 and it compiles and runs ok.