[Ffmpeg-devel] old "inttypes.h not found" error

[Måns Rullgård]

Cool_Zer0 said:
> On 1/23/07, Axel Gallus <uh5d at rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
>>
>> Today i downloaded the new svn snapshot ffmpeg-checkout-2007-01-23.
>> I compiled it with visual studio 2005 as written on the ffmpeg
>> documentation.
>> Everything went ok - the dll & lib files were built, and I could include
>> them
>> in my project. But when including #include <avcodec.h> the error message
>> "Error 1 fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'inttypes.h': No
>> such file or directory e:\installations\visual studio libraries and
>> includefiles\ffmpeg\libavutil\common.h 29" appeared.
>>
>> This seems to be an old issue, that now re-appeared.
>> Maybe someone has changed something in the source code that now causes
>> that error?
>> The old ffmpeg-checkout-2007-01-18 did't cause that error.
>
>
>
>
> Hi.
> The guys from ffmpeg don't want to correct that problem (for me it is a
> problem!)

We can't fix your broken compiler even if we wanted to.

> You can replace
> #include <inttypes.h">
> with
>
>
> typedef signed char  int8_t;
> typedef signed short int16_t;
> typedef signed int   int32_t;
> typedef unsigned char  uint8_t;
> typedef unsigned short uint16_t;
> typedef unsigned int   uint32_t;
> typedef signed long long   int64_t;
> typedef unsigned long long uint64_t;

There's an even better option.  Someone created an inttypes.h that works
with msvc.  Search the mailing list archives from late last year.

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