[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Mimic decoder

[Ramiro Polla]

Mike Melanson wrote:
> Ramiro Polla wrote:
>> Ramiro Polla wrote:
>>> Mike Melanson wrote:
>>>> Ramiro Polla wrote:
>>>>> The project I'm the most interested in for GSoC is one that might just 
>>>>> start a flamewar: Port FFmpeg to Visual Studio.
>>>>> I'm not sure it is even welcome by most devs, but if it is, I'll try my 
>>>>> best to write a clean port. It would involve using the same build system 
>>>>> we currently have, using wgcc as a cl.exe wrapper, importing some 
>>>>> missing POSIX functionality from MinGW, and using MinGW to compile the 
>>>>> extensive asm we have (except inline asm). It would actually be a hybrid 
>>>>> build (MinGW+MSVC). Should I put more effort into this or is everyone 
>>>>> against this just for the sake of bashing Windows?
>>>> Would I be able to test the configuration automatically using a Python
>>>> script?
>>> That's what I'll aim for =)
>>>
>>> Using MSYS (or maybe Cygwin): ./configure ; make ; make install
>> Actually it'd be something like
>> ./configure --enable-msvc (...)
> 
> Are you sure this concept would be a full summer of work?

If it were easy it would already be in FFmpeg SVN...

Ramiro Polla