[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] configure: support MSYS2

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 05:02:58PM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 03:59:12PM +0100, Hendrik Leppkes wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Hendrik Leppkes <h.leppkes at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > MSYS2 uses a system name of "MSYS_NT-6.3" instead of "MINGW32_NT-6.3" in
> > > MSYS1.
> > >
> > 
> > Apparently this isn't quite correct, and you have to start MSYS2 with a
> > special batch file that overrides this for you.
> > Just running bash.exe or sh.exe from a DOS prompt results in this and is
> > apparently considered "wrong usage".
> 
> I don't really see anything wrong with this, however I'd rather have
> a compiler-based detection.
> I.e. if the compiler define __MINGW32__ set the host to mingw (unless
> set explicitly).

> This should also address my other annoyance that you have to specify
> --host when it really should be obvious that you are cross-compiling to
> MINGW for example.

i dont use "--host*" for my mingw building
just -cc='ccache x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc' --arch=x86_64 --target-os=mingw32 --cross-prefix=x86_64-w64-mingw32- --target_exec=wine

the rest i use should not be mingw specific

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