[FFmpeg-devel] Reenabling OS/2

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 10:20:14PM -0700, Dave Yeo wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:30:00 +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 05:48:16AM -0700, Dave Yeo wrote:
> >> Hi, doing a svn pull of ffmpeg last night and attempting to build I
> >> discovered that OS/2 support had been pulled. I guess due to lack of
> >> bugs as it was building here with just a couple of minor fixes needed.
> >> Here is a patch to reenable the OS/2 build. I have only supported gcc
> >> 3.3.5 (klibc063) and currently shared builds do not run due to DLL
> >> naming issues.
> >> This patch does not include various fixes needed for the old EMX build
> >> system but I doubt that anyone would use it to build ffmpeg.
> >> In the future I will try to file bugs if the build needs any tweeking.
> >
> >OS/2 support was broken and in lack of a maintainer, therefore it was
> >axed.  Are you willing to look after it?
> 
> I will attempt to. I may need help from the list with things like
> fixing the shared build without adding much to the makefiles.

Please start by getting a mailer that does not break threads.

> --- configure	Mon Jul 23 21:39:16 2007
> +++ configure.os2	Mon Jul 23 22:06:46 2007
> @@ -678,6 +680,7 @@
>      memalign
>      mkstemp
>      mlib
> +    os2
>      ppc64
>      sdl
>      sdl_video_size

What is this needed for?

> @@ -1186,6 +1189,25 @@
> +  os/2)
> +    ffserver="no"

Why?  Does networking not work?

Diego