[Ffmpeg-devel] networking in libavformat under windows

[Timofei V. Bondarenko]

M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> "Timofei V. Bondarenko" <timm at ipi.ac.ru> writes:
>>M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>>
>>>We're trying to use libavformat to receive a video stream over UDP in
>>>windows.  The obvious problem is that networking is disabled under
>>>mingw.  Why is this so?  Doesn't mingw support networking?  Assuming
>>
>>mingw does.
>>Is there any chance you have omitted WSAStartup() or other windows' stuff?
> 
> 
> I'm talking about this bit in the configure script:
> 
> if test "$mingw32" = "yes" ; then
>     v4l="no"
>     audio_oss="no"
>     dv1394="no"
>     dc1394="no"
>     ffserver="no"
>     network="no"
>     LIBPREF=""
>     LIBSUF=".lib"
>     SLIBPREF=""
>     SLIBSUF=".dll"
>     EXESUF=".exe"
>     prefix="/c/Program Files/FFmpeg"
>     bindir="$prefix"
> fi
> 
> Are you saying networking does work under mingw, and that configure is
> incorrect in disabling it?

Under mingw we have the windows' networking aka winsock that's not 1:1 
compatible to the BSD sockets. We should include 'winsock.h' rather than 
'socket.h'; we have to call WSAStartup() first; a bit different socket
options, datatypes, etc...

May be that's reason to have networking disabled and don't bother with 
compatibility.

--
	Timofei.