[Libav-user] Building with MSVC toolchain resulting in seeking problem?

[John Orr]

On 3/12/2013 11:14 AM, Hendrik Leppkes wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:
>> John Orr <john.orr at ...> writes:
>>
>>>       if (whence == AVSEEK_SIZE) {
>>> #ifndef _MSC_VER
>>>           struct stat st;
>>>
>>>           ret = fstat(c->fd, &st);
>>> #else

...

>>> Perhaps you could (fix the whitespace and) send a patch
>>> to ffmpeg-devel or set up a git clone to allow merging?
>>>
> If you send a patch, then first look at libavformat/os_support.h, it
> already has defines for mingw to map these functions, and should
> probably be enhanced there, instead of cluttering file.c with #ifdefs.

I'll be glad to try to fix it properly.  Bear in mind that I'm not so 
well versed in making patches.

--Johno