[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] MinGW+FFmpeg survival guide

[Reimar Döffinger]

On 24 Jun 2011, at 11:53, Stefano Sabatini <stefano.sabatini-lala at poste.it> wrote:

> On date Wednesday 2011-06-22 22:41:29 +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos encoded:
>> Stefano Sabatini <stefano.sabatini-lala <at> poste.it> writes:
>> 
>>>>> In particular I'm facing this issue when compiling FFmpeg+libsdl,
>>>>> sdl-config/pkg-config return the -mwindows flag, which disables
>>>>> logging to stderr, which is pretty annoying.
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you, that is a very useful hint!
>>> 
>>> Well so are you confirming that I'm not the only one facing the issue?
>> 
>> Yes.
>> 
>>> (and why nobody complained before?)
>> 
>> Perhaps users believe (as I did) that this is a feature?
> 
> Not printing errors and other messages on console can be hardly
> considered a feature...
> 
> Anyway I filed a bug against SDL and added a notice on the file.

Uh, have you tried launching ffplay from some other binary? E.g. via a shortcut with command-line options?
Because without -mwindows I think it will always open a command-line.
I don't think most users would appreciate when e.g. their game does always open a terminal window.
I do not remember if and what the proper way to avoid this is, MPlayer seems to just filter out the -mwindows, as well as any -lmingw32 if it exists...
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