[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Enable building with WSL and MSVC

[Julio C. Rocha]

On Sun, Oct 2, 2022 at 5:19 PM Pierre-Anthony Lemieux <pal at sandflow.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 2, 2022 at 5:14 PM Timo Rothenpieler <timo at rothenpieler.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 03.10.2022 01:47, Julio C. Rocha wrote:
> > > ---
> > >   configure | 7 ++++++-
> > >   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/configure b/configure
> > > index 6712d045d9..f5f5eb29dd 100755
> > > --- a/configure
> > > +++ b/configure
> > > @@ -4847,7 +4847,12 @@ probe_cc(){
> > >           else
> > >               _ident=$($_cc --version 2>/dev/null | head -n1 | tr -d
> '\r')
> > >           fi
> > > -        _DEPCMD='$(DEP$(1)) $(DEP$(1)FLAGS) $($(1)DEP_FLAGS) $< 2>&1
> | awk '\''/including/ { sub(/^.*file: */, ""); gsub(/\\/, "/"); if
> (!match($$0, / /)) print "$@:", $$0 }'\'' > $(@:.o=.d)'
> > > +        if [ "$(grep -i Microsoft /proc/version)" ]; then
> >
> > Not convinced that this is a good check.
> > I can think of a few other situations where Microsoft might appear in
> > there. Like, for example on one of their servers, Azure Cloud, Github
> > Actions and so on.
> >
> > > +            # Windows Subsystem for Linux
> > > +            _DEPCMD='$(DEP$(1)) $(DEP$(1)FLAGS) $($(1)DEP_FLAGS) $<
> 2>&1 | awk '\''/including/ { sub(/^.*file: */, ""); gsub(/\\/, "/"); if
> (!match($$0, / /)) { cmd="/usr/bin/wslpath \x27" $$0 "\x27"; cmd |& getline
> pth; print "$@:", pth } }'\'' > $(@:.o=.d)'
> > > +        else
> > > +            _DEPCMD='$(DEP$(1)) $(DEP$(1)FLAGS) $($(1)DEP_FLAGS) $<
> 2>&1 | awk '\''/including/ { sub(/^.*file: */, ""); gsub(/\\/, "/"); if
> (!match($$0, / /)) print "$@:", $$0 }'\'' > $(@:.o=.d)'
> > > +        fi
> > >           _DEPFLAGS='$(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) -showIncludes -Zs'
> > >           _cflags_speed="-O2"
> > >           _cflags_size="-O1"
> >
> >
> > What actual issue is this solving?
> > I've been building in WSL for years, including MSVC builds, and never
> > encountered any problems.
>
> FWIW. I am currently building on WSL:
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux pal-xxxxx 5.10.102.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 #1 SMP Wed Mar 2
> 00:30:59 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> $ lsb_release -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description:    Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
> Release:        20.04
> Codename:       focal
>

Noted, Pierre.
Are you able to build using the Visual Studio compilers (MSVC) without any
further hacking?

Example workflow:
cd /path/to/ffmpeg-clone
./configure --toolchain=msvc
make
make install

Thanks.