[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] MinGW+FFmpeg survival guide

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Wednesday 2011-06-22 21:20:34 +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos encoded:
> Stefano Sabatini <stefano.sabatini-lala <at> poste.it> writes:
> 
> > In particular I'm facing this issue when compiling FFmpeg+libsdl,
> > sdl-config/pkg-config return the -mwindows flag, which disables
> > logging to stderr, which is pretty annoying.
> 
> Thank you, that is a very useful hint!

Well so are you confirming that I'm not the only one facing the issue?
(and why nobody complained before?)

I don't know why the SDL guys added that in the first place, but maybe
we should filter-out the flag (or try to get some explanation/help
from upstream).

> [...]
> 
> > +* fix the HOME variable, so that it will point to
> > +  $MINGW_PATH/msys/1.0/home/$USER
> 
> That wasn't necessary for me, but probably doesn't hurt.

Only required if you install MSysGit, it will tweak the HOME variable.

> 
> [...]
> 
> > +Once you download and extract the *source* package
>                                       ^^^^^^
> Why? They provide a fine mingw binary package.

Uhm I missed that.

> [...]
> 
> > +lib.exe
> 
> I did not need this...
> (Is it the reason for the reported linking problem?)

How did you manage to create the DLLs then? AFAIK that's required for
creating DLLs.
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