[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Correct inttypes.h emulation for Visual Studio

[The Wanderer]

M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:

> Steve Lhomme <slhomme at divxcorp.com> writes:

>> The only issue with FFMPEG is that it doesn't work with the
>> default/stable version of MinGW.
> 
> That statement kind of contradicts what you said a while ago.

If you're referring to

>>> If you're an MSVC dev (or borland, maybe Intel too) you can't
>>> simply download MinGW, MSys and build FFMPEG from SVN anymore.

then no, it doesn't - because "download MinGW and MSYS, and update
MinGW" is more than simply "download MinGW and MSys".

In this case the correct solution would be for MinGW to release a new
labeled-as-stable version with the updated version of the shell, and
workarounds in FFmpeg would be inappropriate. That doesn't invalidate
the basic observation, however.

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