[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] configure: enable windres on win32/win64 if available

[James Almer]

On 7/9/2021 4:02 PM, Matthias C. M. Troffaes wrote:
> This patch ensures that MSVC builds under msys will use windres when
> available, thereby resulting in the appropriate version and copyright
> information to be included in the dlls, as is already the case in the mingw
> builds.

Wouldn't it make more sense to add support for rc.exe instead?

> ---
>   configure | 1 +
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index b124411609..0fea0bf595 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -5544,6 +5544,7 @@ case $target_os in
>           enabled x86_64 && objformat="win64" || objformat="win32"
>           ranlib=:
>           enable dos_paths
> +        enabled shared && ! enabled small && test_cmd $windres --version && enable gnu_windres
>           ;;
>       cygwin*)
>           target_os=cygwin
>