[FFmpeg-devel] [VOTE] drop support for using libav* compiled with mingw/cygwin in msvc

[Måns Rullgård]

Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:

> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:08:03PM +0100, Luca Abeni wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> [...]
>> >> I was already mildly against this change
>> >> before it was commited though i left it to mans to decide. Now as it
>> >> breaks use of libav* under msvc iam more strongly against it ...
>> >>
>> >> Anyway, my vote is to revert it. Theres no advantage in this commit and
>> >> it breaks what was supported and also documented as such in the docs.
>> > 
>> > The advantage has already been presented and agreed with by several
>> > people.
>> 
>> I did not look at the details of the change, but I am wondering if there
>> is some way to have these advantages without breaking support for msvc...
>
> Yes, make configure extract "(12<<16) + (3<<8) + 4" convert it to "12.3.4"
> and add this to config.h

The installed headers don't have config.h, so that won't work.

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M?ns Rullg?rd
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