Unable to build on Windows

[n00kii]

README says

For windows targets this is expected to be already built, with a directory named MPV_SOURCE/64 or /32 containing build artifacts for 64-bit and 32-bit targets respectively.

but the link provided is dead. Unsure exactly what "build artifacts" is supposed to be, do I need to build mpv myself from source? (Kinda sucks since the process is a little convoluted on Windows)

There are multiple downloads of different forms of mpv available, can I use one of those somehow? For example, there's

• the mpv dev lib
  
• the raw mpv source
  
• mpv-build
  

For reference, I've already tried pointing the environment variable to each of these directories, nested inside a 64 folder as per the README but cargo complains that

= note: LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'mpv.lib'

[n00kii]

Managed to build mpv, but there is still no "mpv.lib" file anywhere. Am I missing something?

[moxun33]

same error.

[olehbozhok]

I build mpv.lib using https://github.com/Ivshti/libmpv
but have error
(exit code: 0xc0000135, STATUS_DLL_NOT_FOUND)

[ParadoxSpiral]

Yeah the situation seems to have changed a bit. I will try getting the build to work on Windows, only got access to a Windows machine recently.

[prayag17]

Any updates on this?

[maulik9898]

Also facing same issue error: process didn't exit successfully: target\debug\mpv-rs.exe (exit code: 0xc0000135, STATUS_DLL_NOT_FOUND)

[voidentente]

• Make sure you have the most recent Visual Studio installed (see https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/compile-windows.md#linking-libmpv-with-msvc-programs saying that it must support stdint.h
• You can download the libmpv stuff from https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpv-player-windows/files/libmpv/, or build it yourself
• Latest libmpv-rs expects libmpv API version 1.108, but the latest files are of a different major version, so use mpv-dev-x86_64-20201220-git-dde0189.7z or any other old archive that still uses major version 1 (see https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/client-api-changes.rst for the API versions)
• Build the .lib file by running

CALL "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
lib /def:mpv.def /name:mpv-1.dll /out:mpv.lib /MACHINE:X64

or similar. If warnings pop up like "...not supported on this platform...", it's because mpv.def is missing the EXPORTS statement, which you can just add as the first line (see mpv-player/mpv#5007)

• Put the .lib file in the project root or anywhere where the linker can find it
• Put the .dll file in the directory of the executable or in any directory in PATH