[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Missing "inttypes.h" on windows

Steve Lhomme slhomme
Tue Nov 8 16:13:16 CET 2005


Michel Bardiaux wrote:
> Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 11:25:18PM -0800, Steve Lhomme wrote:
>>
>>> This is the kind of trick we added to our source base :
>>>
>>> #ifdef _MSC_VER
>>> #    define EMULATE_INTTYPES
>>> #    define strcasecmp stricmp
>>> #endif
>>
>>
>>
>> What is this _MSC_VER #define?  
> 
> 
> It will evaluate to TRUE when compiling with any MS compiler.

Yes, that's what you need to test to know if the compiler comes from 
MSVC. There are different values depending on the versions.

>> And why do you #define strcasecmp?
> 
> 
> It is indeed not needed, because it is already in 
> libavformat/os_support.h. However, that file should go in libavutil, and 
> strcasecmp should be aliased to stricmp for Win32, not just for OS2.

Given all the stuff from inttypes.h is used in libavcodec, I don't think 
any file in libavformat/ is the correct location to fix this.





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