[FFmpeg-devel] Build Errors

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 8:17 AM, Yogender Gupta <ygupta at nvidia.com> wrote:
> 1. I need to comment out the following lines in configure while building in mingw using msvc  2013. Else configure gets stuck, anything I need to take care. Started happening recently.
>
> #for linkunit in $LIBRARY_LIST $PROGRAM_LIST $EXTRALIBS_LIST; do
> #    flatten_extralibs ${linkunit}_extralibs
> #    unique  ${linkunit}_extralibs
> #    resolve ${linkunit}_extralibs
> #    eval ${linkunit}_extralibs=\$\(\$ldflags_filter \$${linkunit}_extralibs\)
> #done
>
> 2. Also getting linking errors now.
>
> ./compat/windows/mslink: line 5: /c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0/VC/BIN/amd64/link: Argument list too long
> ./compat/windows/mslink: line 5: /c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0/VC/BIN/amd64/link: Argument list too long
>

You get the second error because you disabled the code to cleanup the
library list, which makes it far far far longer.
I build on windows regularly and I have not noticed any problems with
configure getting stuck, though.

- Hendrik