[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Force text files to be downloaded in UNIX line ending (LF)

[Timotius Margo]

I verified that GNU Make 4.1 in MSYS2 environment builds FFmpeg without any issue regardless of the line ending. This is good and I recommend MSYS2 usage for building FFmpeg for WinRT in the wiki below:
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/WinRT

However, the official documentation and the wiki still suggest that MinGW/MSYS as the default environment to build FFmpeg on Windows. For example MSYS web link points directly to the MinGW/MSYS web page. If MSYS2 is in fact the recommended shell to build FFmpeg in Windows, is there any upcoming effort to update these docs?

Best Regards,


Timotius Margo

-----Original Message-----
From: ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org [mailto:ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org] On Behalf Of Matt Oliver
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2015 2:28 AM
To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches
Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Force text files to be downloaded in UNIX line ending (LF)

On 10 January 2015 at 21:18, Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 1/10/2015 8:40 AM, Timotius Margo wrote:
> > This causes a problem with autoconf and prevents user from building 
> > FFmpeg successfully without applying a workaround.
>
> I forgot to mention this is fixed in newer make.exe's, and I think 
> it's included in MSYS2.
>

It is included in MSYS2 as current versions dont seem to have this problem at all. Which is just another reason why *IF* anything is going to be mentioned/recommended then it should be MSYS2 and not MSYS/MinGW setups.
Although this may be a good example of why it could be useful to make it clear somewhere that MSYS2 is the recommended setup to help avoid these issues that way.
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