Re: Extension Proposal: Video Encoding using FFmpeg

On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Jan Ehrhardt <phpdev@ehrhardt.nl> wrote: > Hi Anatol, > > anatol.php@belski.net, 23/04/14, 19:19: >> >> > The previous message was a little clearer: >> > >> > https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/x264-devel/2011-May/008517.html >> >> I don't see where it was issue with building with MSVC in that link, the >> person just started to build with MinGW right on. To build it with MSVC >> it'll need some work to convert the build system to something portable or >> to >> an VC project. > > > It was an answer to the question in the topic-start: > >> Is there any build setup for MSVC or how to use mingw built library in >> MSVC. > > > The answers all involved non native MSVC compilers. So the question remains: > how to build a static VC9 lib for the current x264. Also note this remark in > the Libav reference by Pierre: > >> The recommendation for x264 is to build it from source, as it evolves too >> quickly for Cygwin Ports to be up to date. > > > So the work to convert the x264 source to "something portable or to a VC > project" should be an automatic one. afair libogg builds fine with VC, only needs some tweaks to export some missing symbols. This issue does not exist if you built it static. -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org