[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Autodetect pthreads

[Sebastian Vater]

Hi Jason and all others!

Jason Garrett-Glaser a ?crit :
> For those who do not want or need zlib, enabling it by default will be
> an annoyance.  Until you can make it read people's minds, it will
> always be wrong for someone.
>
> So we should disable zlib now too, right?
>
> ffmpeg should default to what the majority of users want.  The
> majority of users are willing to sacrifice a few kilobytes of code for
> thread support.  If you think otherwise, you are wrong.
>   
It's not only this.

pthreads makes it impossible with at least MinGW 4.4.1 to fully
statically link an application, because it requires a mingw*.dll.

At least I was unable getting a fully statically linked executable with
that version (even with static pthreads).

Unless this issue has not been fixed yet, I agree that it's a bad idea
to enable pthreads by default.

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Best regards,
                   :-) Basty/CDGS (-: