The `MSYS/MINGW64` Build Fails

[eabase]

The MSYS/MINGW64 Build Fails, with seemingly missing packages, even if installed and wrong version number issues.

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# Using MINGW64 shell
pacman -Qs mpv								# check if mpv is installed
pacman -Si mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-mpv		# check what's included
# seem ok

cmake .. -G 'MinGW Makefiles'

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There seem to be at least 3 issues here:

1. ftxui is not available in pacman DB in MSYS repos. (Filed issue at MSYS.)
2. Unknown version issue for LUA, where correct LUA is already installed.
3. pkgconfig complaint of missing mpv package, although mpv is already installed.

Any suggestions how to fix?

[Dark-Kernel]

Let me take a deep dive in, and will let you know once I have a working solution.

[eabase]

I manged to get it to compile. However, tuistic.exe doesn't run right in the MSYS/MINGW64 terminal. Seem to be no sound... (I need to check, maybe no sound drivers possible in MSYS.)

Missing Dependencies in MSYS:

• yt-dlp
• sdbus-cpp
• ftxui

Missing Packages in MSYS DB

• ftxui
• sdbus-cpp

The main issue was that LuaJIT was interfering with later MSYS Lua installation.

# Install missing
pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-yt-dlp
pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-lua
pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-libnotify  # not documented as dependency in windows

lua -v
# Lua 5.4.8

# pkg-config.exe  --list-all --env-only | grep lua

lua                            Lua - An Extensible Extension Language
lua5.1                         LuaJIT - Just-in-time compiler for Lua
lua5.4                         Lua - An Extensible Extension Language
luajit                         LuaJIT - Just-in-time compiler for Lua

# find /mingw64/lib/pkgconfig  /mingw64/share/pkgconfig -iname "lua*.pc" 2>/dev/null

/mingw64/lib/pkgconfig/lua.pc
/mingw64/lib/pkgconfig/lua5.1.pc
/mingw64/lib/pkgconfig/lua5.4.pc
/mingw64/lib/pkgconfig/luajit.pc

# pkg-config.exe --libs mpv
Package dependency requirement 'lua5.1 >= 5.1.0' could not be satisfied.
Package 'lua5.1' has version '2.1.1753364724', required version is '>= 5.1.0'


# pkg-config --modversion luajit
2.1.1753364724

# This gives wrong version copied as wrapper (to 5.1)
# pkg-config --modversion lua5.1
2.1.1753364724

# Install lua5.1 to override broken luajit "drop-in replacement"
# https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/issues
pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-lua51

Now it compiles with:

# cd to your clones directory
git clone https://github.com/Dark-Kernel/tuisic.git
cd tuisic

mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. -G 'MinGW Makefiles' -DWITH_MPRIS=OFF		# ok (we don't have an 'sdbus-cpp' package.)
cmake --build . --config Release --parallel 8
# This will install to: "C:/Program Files (x86)/tuisic/"
cmake --build . --target install

Running from Windows Terminal (in Powershell), doesn't work, and gives missing DLL warnings:

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libmpv-2.dll

libcurl-4.dll

... and many more:

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Running from MSYS/MINGW64 terminal seem to work, but no sound and downloading file shows an error:
'notify-send' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable command or batch file.

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Grooking:

The notify-send command is a Linux utility used to send desktop notifications, commonly found on systems with a desktop environment like GNOME or KDE. It is not natively available on Windows

Installing:

pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-libnotify

Unfortunately, this corrupts the progress output to nearly unreadable...

[eabase]

I'm getting weird GDBus errors:

The same error can be abtained from CLI:

# notify-send "Hello" "This is a test notification"

GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Notifications is unknown

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@Dark-Kernel

Q: Is the sdbus-cpp required for use?

Update the desktop/tuisic.desktop file.
Exec=alacritty -e tuisic # Change terminal accordingly

A: ???

Q: What is alacritty? And how to use this?

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=Tuisic
GenericName=Terminal Music Player
Comment=A TUI music streaming application
Exec=alacritty -e tuisic # Change terminal accordingly
Icon=utilities-terminal
Terminal=false
Categories=AudioVideo;ConsoleOnly;Player;
Keywords=music;terminal;streaming;
StartupNotify=false

A: ???

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Q: Where are the mp3 files downloaded to?
A: C:\msys64\home\xxxx\Music

Q: Where are the configuration file(s) located?
A: C:\msys64\home\xxxx\.config\tuisic\config.json

Q: What's inside the config.json configuration file?
A: cat ~/.config/config.json

# cat .\config.json
{
    "downloads": {
        "path": "C:\\msys64\\home\\xxxx/Music",
        "format": "mp3",
        "quality": "best"
    },
    "player": {
        "volume": 100,
        "subtitle_enabled": true,
        "repeat_enabled": false
    },
    "ui": {
        "theme": "dark",
        "show_notifications": true,
        "notification_timeout": 3000
    },
    "cache": {
        "enabled": true,
        "max_size_mb": 100,
        "path": "C:\\msys64\\home\\xxxx/.cache/musicplayer"
    }
}

[Dark-Kernel]

I'm getting weird GDBus errors:

The same error can be abtained from CLI:

notify-send "Hello" "This is a test notification"

GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Notifications is unknown

libnotify is linux specific library for notifications, i need to update the codebase to add windows compatible notification library.

This means I need to tweak the application for windows too.

Q: Is the sdbus-cpp required for use?

The sdbus-cpp is only required for MPRIS, since you want to compile on windows, you don't need this. You can use -DWITH_MPRIS=OFF to compile without it.

Update the desktop/tuisic.desktop file.
Exec=alacritty -e tuisic # Change terminal accordingly

Q: What is alacritty? And how to use this?

Alacritty is an fast terminal emulator, windows user's don't need this. What it does is launch the terminal and run the tuisic (this is the common way to run an TUI app in linux). And I included the .desktop for linux systems only.

Q: Where are the mp3 files downloaded to?

To ~/Music directory

Q: Where are the configuration file(s) located?

Again, i need to configure the app for windows.

@eabase thanks for you interest and efforts, I will try to introduce windows support soon.
Anyway, I am open for PRs if you want to work on this :)

[Dark-Kernel]

There's other findings i made, maybe helpful therefore putting it here.

Dependencies:

get libmpv from here: https://github.com/zhongfly/mpv-winbuild/releases
get pkgconfig at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pkgconfiglite/
get libcurl at : https://curl.se/windows/

get fmt : https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt/releases
install fmt:
mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. -G "Ninja" -DFMT_TEST=OFF -DFMT_INSTALL=ON
cmake --build . --target install

get rapidjson: https://sourceforge.net/projects/rapidjson.mirror/

Update CMakeLists.txt to include the libs.

# ─── Core dependencies ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
find_package(PkgConfig REQUIRED)
#pkg_check_modules(MPV REQUIRED mpv)
# Manually locate libmpv
#set(MPV_INCLUDE_DIR "C:/Users/MyWindowsUser/Downloads/mpv-dev-x86_64-20251014-git-ad59ff1/include")
set(MPV_INCLUDE_DIR "/c/Users/MyWindowsUser/Downloads/mpv-dev-x86_64-20251014-git-ad59ff1/include")

#set(MPV_LIBRARY "C:/Users/MyWindowsUser/Downloads/mpv-dev-x86_64-20251014-git-ad59ff1/libmpv.dll.a")
set(MPV_LIBRARY "/c/Users/MyWindowsUser/Downloads/mpv-dev-x86_64-20251014-git-ad59ff1/libmpv.dll.a")

set(RAPIDJSON_INCLUDE_DIR "/c/Users/MyWindowsUser/Downloads/v1.1.0\ source\ code/Tencent-rapidjson-f54b0e4/include")
#target_include_directories(tuisic PRIVATE /mingw64/include)
target_include_directories(tuisic PRIVATE ${RAPIDJSON_INCLUDE_DIR})

include_directories(${MPV_INCLUDE_DIR})
link_libraries(${MPV_LIBRARY})
#find_package(CURL REQUIRED)
#set(CURL_INCLUDE_DIR "C:/Users/MyWindowsUser/Downloads/curl-8.16.0_6-win64-mingw/curl-8.16.0_6-win64-mingw/include/")
set(CURL_INCLUDE_DIR "/c/Users/MyWindowsUser/Downloads/curl-8.16.0_6-win64-mingw/curl-8.16.0_6-win64-mingw/include")

#set(CURL_LIBRARY "C:/Users/MyWindowsUser/Downloads/curl-8.16.0_6-win64-mingw/curl-8.16.0_6-win64-mingw/lib/libcurl.dll.a")
set(CURL_LIBRARY "/c/Users/MyWindowsUser/Downloads/curl-8.16.0_6-win64-mingw/curl-8.16.0_6-win64-mingw/lib/libcurl.dll.a")


include_directories(${CURL_INCLUDE_DIR})
link_libraries(${CURL_LIBRARY})

[eabase]

@Dark-Kernel

There's other findings i made, maybe helpful therefore putting it here.

Ok, not sure why you think these are needed?
All my MSYS available libraries works, except notify-send.

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Running from the install directory, and hitting d to download, I get a lot of unalinged garbage. But not always. Some function is not using the correct ANSI control escape sequence for \r (CR). At least so it seems, because sometime it's ok.

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Here seem ok:

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Is there a way to run this in verbose or debug mode?
I never have a chance to read or screenshot the errors or console logs...

Also:

• When using the mouse, the pointer is misaligned.
• What keys do you use to change volume? (Mouse doesn't do it.)
• What are the default settings used for MPV?
• Are they exposed in the tuisic settings?
• running mpv from command line, works as expected.

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I need to see the exact commands and setting used for the mpv communications.
(Where are they? It seem many are hardcoded into the C++ code?)

[Dark-Kernel]

There's other findings i made, maybe helpful therefore putting it here.

Ok, not sure why you think these are needed? All my MSYS available libraries works, except notify-send.

Well, maybe we could find a way to run in windows natively, without MSYS.

Running from the install directory, and hitting d to download, I get a lot of unalinged garbage. But not always. Some function is not using the correct ANSI control escape sequence for \r (CR). At least so it seems, because sometime it's ok.

Here seem ok:

It's quite clean in my though, maybe terminal issue.

Is there a way to run this in verbose or debug mode? I never have a chance to read or screenshot the errors or console logs...

not yet.

Also:

* When using the mouse, the pointer is misaligned.

Any referencing screenshot?

* What keys do you use to change volume? (Mouse doesn't do it.)

It's using vim key binds, h for left, j for down, k for up, l for right, So reach the volume progress and press h.

* What are the default settings used for MPV?

Take a look at https://github.com/Dark-Kernel/tuisic/blob/master/src/player.cpp -> MusicPlayer constructor.

* Are they exposed in the tuisic settings?

Not yet.

* running mpv from command line, works as expected.

Didn't understand.

I need to see the exact commands and setting used for the mpv communications. (Where are they? It seem many are hardcoded into the C++ code?)
yes, hard coded for now.

[eabase]

• running mpv from command line, works as expected.

Didn't understand.

As long as you can run MPV from CLI, you should also be able to run tuisic, on any other machine, OS or API.

I think I found the sound issue:

• https://github.com/Dark-Kernel/tuisic/blob/master/src/player.cpp#L114

mpv_set_option_string(mpv.get(), "ao", "pulse");  // or your preferred audio output

This is the problem why nothing is playing! In windows it has to be wasapi. (See below)

This not only should be an external setting, it must be, otherwise you will never be compatible with other OS's or VMs. There is no pulse in windows, and will never be AFAIK.

Please check your settings. Here are mine:

# To see available audio devices:
mpv --audio-device=help

	List of detected audio devices:
	'auto' (Autoselect device)
	'wasapi/{0710f280-6f7a-460f-8dee-2874f4830786}' (Speakers (2- JBL Charge 4))
	'wasapi/{e0bacfb0-f628-432e-8bf7-7fe1bb904671}' (Speakers (Realtek(R) Audio))
  
# To see available audio outputs (for your OS):
mpv --ao=help

	Available audio outputs:
	wasapi           Windows WASAPI audio output (event mode)
	null             Null audio output
	pcm              RAW PCM/WAVE file writer audio output

# others:
	sdl    			SDL 2.0+ audio output driver. Should work on any platform supported by SDL 2.0, but may require the SDL_AUDIODRIVER environment variable to be set appropriately for your system.


# To list all available audio decoders.
mpv --ad=help
						
# To set audio driver order:
mpv --ao=pcm,wasapi,sdl,null   # Does not seem to work for MSYS/MINGW64 (Windows)
mpv --ao=wasapi,sdl,null       # <---- THIS WORKS !

# Message levels:
# MPV_VERBOSE
mpv --msg-color=yes							# Enable colors
mpv --terminal=yes							# Enable Terminal stdin/stdout/stderr
mpv --msg-level=all=trace 					# To see all messages mpv outputs
mpv --msg-level=ao/sndio=no					# To Completely silences the output of ao_sndio, which uses the log prefix [ao/sndio].
mpv --msg-level=all=warn,ao/alsa=error		# To Only show warnings or worse, and let the ao_alsa output show errors only.

Here are your other settings:

• https://github.com/Dark-Kernel/tuisic/blob/master/src/player.cpp#L95-L98

Apart from these settings, I would also like to be able to change things like log file location and verbosity (see above). But I don't know what defaults settings are used and where they are kept when using the API. Do you know?

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It's using vim key binds, h for left, j for down, k for up, l for right, So reach the volume progress and press h.

I'm afraid I don't understand... Why not use standard keys like up/down,left/right etc.? I noticed my up/down volume keys are mapped to 9 and 0... Can you please post all VIM bindings you are talking about? (Also where are they defined? In MPV they have their own config file. I guess these could be better aligned?)

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I see your notify-send is in the upper right corner. Where is this defined? I suggest also here, that the toast tool can be configured by settings outside app.

I windows it's very easy to make toast messages once you know how. You can use, .NET, C++, Bash, Powershell, Python... I have script for Powershell and a wrapper in Bash for using posh + BurntToast, and it works great and now seem to be the most popular notification tool, as it supports images, and urls etc. Even in native powershell, it is easy.

I tried to hard replace/wrap the native notify-send binary, but MSYS is smart enough not to be fooled by such noob hacks. Telling me:

This version of C:\msys64\mingw64\bin\notify-send.exe is not compatible with the version of Windows you're running. Check your computer's system information and then contact the software publisher.

[Dark-Kernel]

This app was not intended for windows at very first. It is heavily configured according to Linux environment, starting from it's configs to vim keybinds.

To make it work for windows I need to reconfigure it from scratch, and I am willing to do, but It's gonna cost some time.

I hope you understand that.

Thank you for your patience.

[eabase]

@Dark-Kernel

I hope you understand that...

Hi Sumit,

Yes, I totally understand, my apologies for sounding a bit crass.
I think this project is, and looks, awesome, and jumped on it immediately. It was just a bit frustrating to find out that the player just almost works, and not being able to do anything about it. I'm sure it is going to work for both MSYS and powershell in a Windows Terminal shell, eventually.

Right now (AFAICT) the only thing preventing it from actually playing sound, is the wrong device hardcoded (as I described above). The toast message seem to be ignored once fired off, even if it fails, at least the program doesn't crash.

I just got the sound working, by recompiling with some minor changes in player.cpp :

//mpv_set_option_string(mpv.get(), "ao", "pulse");  // or your preferred audio output
mpv_set_option_string(mpv.get(), "ao", "wasapi,pulse,pcm,null");

I also changed the json filenames for the history/playlist from config.json to tracks.json, as it's not a config file, and now more descriptive.

However, the player did crash at one point... Need more investigation.

[Dark-Kernel]

I just got the sound working, by recompiling with some minor changes in player.cpp

Good.

Also check this out: #1d04eb7

[eabase]

Awesome! I'm away for the moment, but I will try to test asap when I get back.
I will then complete my toast hack, and also try to compile with MSYS environment (not MIGW64) as it is supposed to be more POSIX compliant and should then render ANSI control and coloring better. Then, lastly, try to compile in native MS VS 2022. Anything is possible! (E.g. Space Invaders in powershell...)

[eabase]

Hi Sumit,

Apologies for my absence, been way too busy and distracted with various other projects.
Right now, IDK, when I will have time to do more testing here, but it is on my todo list.
Will let you know if I have any new updates.