[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] doc/platform: Add build instruction for Windows Runtime

[Timothy Gu]

On Sat Jan 10 2015 at 2:07:16 AM Derek Buitenhuis <
derek.buitenhuis at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1/10/2015 8:43 AM, Timotius Margo wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The attached patch updates the Platform Specific Information with build
> instruction for Windows Store and Windows Phone 8.1.
>
> [...]
>
> > + at heading MinGW Setup
>
> Almost whole patch is wrong (should use MSYS2), out of scope for FFmpeg,
> and
> uses the wrong title (we *do not* want MinGW here at all).
>

Just because MinGW.org/MSYS is old and dead doesn't mean people don't use
it. So, merely changing the heading to MSYS is fine for me.


>
> It duplicates existing documention poorly or misleadingly (at worse,
> wrongly),
>

+1

It also seems to include hacks which should not be needed.
>

Can't say anything about this one.


>
> If this belongs anywhere, it belongs on the wiki.
>

This is the best solution right now. Please add your information to the
wiki page https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/WinRT for now, and
after we think it is good to be merged into platforms.texi we will do just
that.

Timothy