mplayer and libfontconfig-1.dll

After one hell of a time trying to compile fontconfig on mingw (and 
actually somehow suceeding), mplayer still won't detect it. Since I'm 
pretty much giving up on it, I checked smplayer's mplayer build (mplayer 
cccp-svn-r23855-3.4.5) and that build has a libfontconfig-1.dll (and 
libexpat-1.dll, libfreetype-6.dll) along with mplayer.exe. Is there any 
way to compile mplayer on mingw while having it use these dlls?

Also, to Gianluigi Tiesi (who has done a superb job at those win32 
mplayer builds): Why aren't you using fontconfig on your builds? We 
can't have ass/ssa+embedded fonts rendering without it!

Best regards.