[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] C99ify array initialisation in mxfdec.c

[Axel Holzinger]

Hi Ramiro,

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 2:36 AM, Ramiro Polla wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Axel Holzinger 
> <aholzinger at gmx.de> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Ramiro Polla wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 6:14 AM, Axel Holzinger 
> <aholzinger at gmx.de> 
> >> wrote:
> >> > Sure, it's Intel's C compiler for Windows icl, 11.1 065.
> >>
> >> Does FFmpeg finally compile with icl? (I haven't tested in a
> >> while)
> >
> > Not really. As you already know in the past I tried to use icl
with 
> > the FFmpeg configure script directly, but I'm not good enough in 
> > scripting to be able to add native icl support. That's a pitty, 
> > because I think that would be the most straight solution 
> > and I think it is possible. I know that it takes some additions
> > (like stdint.h, etc.), but most things come with MinGW and some
> > parts could  be hosted on svn.ffmpeg.org as SVN externals.
> >
> > As Intel's compiler under Linux (icc) tries to behave like gcc
(and 
> > use/accept gcc switches) and under Windows (icl) tries to imitate 
> > Microsoft's compiler. That's the reason that you can't easily use
> > icl to build FFmpeg.
> 
> > What I'm trying out now is to sort of translate icc's Linux 
> > switches to icl's Windows switches. The problem is that there are 
> > many switches  that don't have a counter part on the other side,
> > so I guess full featured build will not be possible/easy. Also I
>  haven't yet thought about asm.
> 
> There is a tool called wgcc that claims to translate the 
> command line switches, you could try that. FFmpeg's configure 
> also has a section of
> command line mapping (look for "if   $cc -v 2>&1 | grep -qi ^gcc;
> then") that could be used. We're collecting info about icl here:
> http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=Icc#Windows_version 
> . If you have more information it'd be nice to have it updated.

thanks for the info. I will check this. Perhaps it's possible
to support icl natively. That would be a huge gain for the unteachable
Windows guys ;-)

Cheers
Axel