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

[Jai Menon]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Sebastian Vater
<cdgs.basty at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi a 2nd time!
>
> Jason Garrett-Glaser a ?crit :
>> This is because ffmpeg refuses to add the necessary support code for
>> static pthreads.
>>
> This is not a ffmpeg issue, I also get this behaviour when creating
> wxWidgets/QT4 apps, for example.
>
> Even if you use -static-libgcc as compile switch it still requires
> mingwm10.dll
>
> It has to do with exception throwing across DLL boundaries, which
> requires this always as a shared library.

IIRC it is required for postexit cleanup.

-- 
Jai Menon