[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] doc/platform: Add build instruction for Windows Runtime

[Timotius Margo]

Thank you for the feedback and suggestions Derek and Timothy. I didn't realize that MSYS2 is recommended over MinGW.org/MSYS. The current Platform Specific Information and the web links in the official FFmpeg documentation seem to suggest otherwise. Nevertheless, as MSYS2 is a better shell to build FFmpeg, I will update the instruction and upload them to the https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide wiki.

Our goal is to provide a clear and trouble free instructions for developers with all level of proficiencies with Linux while trying to follow FFmpeg documentation standard and style. Therefore, we tend to be a little verbose to eliminate ambiguities in some areas.

In term of the different architectures, each section (Windows Phone ARM, Windows Store, x86, etc) requires a different set of environment variables and compile/linking flags. Thus we thought presenting them in such format (looks like copy/paste) is the easier way for developer to digest. Any suggestion and feedback is greatly appreciated.

Before uploading the instruction to the wiki, I will address the following items based on your feedback:

1. Update Windows Runtime Pre-requisite to use MSYS2
2. Replace MinGW section with MSYS2 accordingly

Have we missed anything that you pointed out? Could you please clarify which unnecessary hack that you are referring to?

Best Regards,


Timotius Margo

-----Original Message-----
From: ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org [mailto:ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org] On Behalf Of Derek Buitenhuis
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2015 10:18 AM
To: ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org
Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] doc/platform: Add build instruction for Windows Runtime

On 1/10/2015 6:02 PM, Timothy Gu wrote:
>> Almost whole patch is wrong (should use MSYS2), out of scope for 
>> FFmpeg, and uses the wrong title (we *do not* want MinGW here at 
>> all).

Sure. My issue is that people confused MinGW (the toolchain) with MSYS (the environment, which is sometimes on mingw.org).


> This is the best solution right now. Please add your information to 
> the wiki page https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/WinRT for 
> now, and after we think it is good to be merged into platforms.texi we 
> will do just that.

That sounds good to me.

- Derek

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