[FFmpeg-devel] FATE failure on mingw gcc-4.2.4

[Ramiro Polla]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 6:24 AM, Frank Barchard <fbarchard at google.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:02 PM, M?ns Rullg?rd <mans at mansr.com> wrote:
>
>> The build failures on mingw with gcc 4.2.4 are caused by the recent
>> addition of -Werror=missing-prototypes triggering an error in
>> stdio.h. ?For some reason, this gcc version isn't treating this as a
>> system header and suppressing warnings.
>>
>> It might be possible to work around this by providing an explicit
>> --sysroot argument to ffmpeg's configure. ?Could someone with an
>> affected system please try this?
>>
>
> This is affecting chromium, which uses:
> gcc-sjlj.exe (GCC) 4.2.1-sjlj (mingw32-2)
> a sampling of errors:
> c:\msys\1.0\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.2.1-sjlj/../../../../include/inttypes.h:259:
> error: no previous prototype for 'imaxabs'
> c:\msys\1.0\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.2.1-sjlj/../../../../include/math.h:357:
> error: no previous prototype for '__fpclassifyl'
> c:\msys\1.0\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.2.1-sjlj/../../../../include/stdio.h:372:
> error: no previous prototype for 'getc'
>
> updating to 4.4, it builds. ?But it doesn't run?

FATE and the autobuilds seem happy about 4.4.2. What version of
binutils and mingw-runtime are you using?

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