[Ffmpeg-devel] Compilation for Windows under Cygwin

[Vincent Honnet]

Hi Steve,

I'm sorry for the answer I gave because I know that such mailinglists 
are very helpful, but I just found that M. Niedermayer shouldn't have 
answered like that. It doesn't help. I'm active in 10 different 
mailinglist and it's the first time I become such a mail. I didn't study 
computer science and some subtilities are for me not an evidence like 
for other.
Anyway...

Thanks for your answer.

Vincent

Steve Willis a ?crit :

> ...and as a follow up request to FFMPEG developers: any thoughts on 
> integrating the cross-compile instructions from the FAQ into your 
> build process? It would sure be nice to be able to simply download the 
> latest Windows DLL from CVS with each new build. I know this would 
> limit the ability to customize the options compiled into the DLL, but 
> for many programmers it would be a big bonus. From my perspective, it 
> would help other projects like fobs4jmf make current Windows releases 
> available.
>
> No worries if that's not in the cards. Your work is very much 
> appreciated!
>
> Steve
>
> Steve Willis wrote:
>
>> Hi Vincent,
>>
>> I'd like to try to diffuse what seems to be turning into a tense 
>> topic on the list. I'm not an FFMPEG developer...just a programmer 
>> who needed to compile it under Windows like yourself.
>>
>> First, you really should heed the advice on the FFMPEG Web site. Of 
>> the open-source projects I have used or contributed to, FFMPEG is 
>> definitely unique in that it has an incredibly active developer 
>> community, and incredibly stable CVS snapshots. Typically, I would be 
>> nervous about using anything from CVS...releases are usually "stable" 
>> and CVS "unstable". The opposite is true here, and you just have to 
>> accept it. I would personally like to see FFMPEG developers remove 
>> the release builds altogether, but I know that there are some 
>> compelling reasons to have some milestone releases.
>>
>> I followed the instructions for building FFMPEG on Windows on the 
>> FFMPEG FAQ. It went very well. Cygwin might work, but why not use a 
>> tool that is known to work? The install process was painless, and it 
>> only took me a couple of hours to go from download to a "Hello World" 
>> program. And that is saying a lot, because I am not a C programmer 
>> (Java is my first language!)
>>
>> I just wanted to put in my two cents, because I had the same 
>> confusion concerning the 0.4.8 release. You can bet that the CVS code 
>> has been much improved. Just watch the mailing list for a week to see 
>> how much active improvement goes into it!
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> Vincent Honnet wrote:
>>
>>> I'm sorry M. Niedermayer, but I download a version of tool and if 
>>> this version it is writen that it should compile, I don't why I 
>>> should use the version of CVS ! I understand that it could not work 
>>> with the "pre" version but not with the 0.4.8 ! Moreover, the 
>>> purpose was not really the fact that it does not compile but that it 
>>> does not compile under Cygwin with MinGW wit hthe goal of using VS 
>>> .Net.
>>>
>>> If you don't want to help people that are as clever as you, then 
>>> please do not answer !
>>>
>>> Vincent
>>>
>>> Michael Niedermayer a ?crit :
>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday 04 August 2005 16:21, Vincent Honnet wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>>> I need help. I tried nearly everything: with the ffmpeg-0.4.8 t 
>>>>> and with
>>>>> the 0.9-pre1.
>>>>>   
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> use cvs, if you dont, fine too but then dont complain
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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