[Ffmpeg-cvslog] r7827 - trunk/doc/faq.texi

[diego]

Author: diego
Date: Mon Feb  5 17:38:47 2007
New Revision: 7827

Modified:
   trunk/doc/faq.texi

Log:
Put Visual C++ question in a better location.


Modified: trunk/doc/faq.texi
==============================================================================
--- trunk/doc/faq.texi	(original)
+++ trunk/doc/faq.texi	Mon Feb  5 17:38:47 2007
@@ -261,6 +261,21 @@
 it are likely to be welcome if they do not pollute the source code
 with @code{#ifdef}s related to the compiler.
 
+ at section Visual C++ produces many errors.
+
+Visual C++ is not compliant to the C standard and does not support
+the inline assembly used in FFmpeg.
+If you wish - for whatever weird reason - to use Visual C++ for your
+project then you can link the Visual C++ code with libav* as long as
+you compile the latter with a working C compiler. For more information, see
+the @emph{Visual C++ compatibility} section in the FFmpeg documentation.
+
+There have been efforts to make FFmpeg compatible with Visual C++ in the
+past. However, they have all been rejected as too intrusive, especially
+since MinGW does the job perfectly adequately. None of the core developers
+work with Visual C++ and thus this item is low priority. Should you find
+the silver bullet that solves this problem, feel free to shoot it at us.
+
 @section Can I use FFmpeg or libavcodec under Windows ?
 
 Yes, but the MinGW tools @emph{must} be used to compile FFmpeg. You
@@ -299,21 +314,6 @@
 You can also try to hack it and remove more, but if you had problems fixing
 the compilation failure then you are probably not qualified for this.
 
- at section Visual C++ produces many errors.
-
-Visual C++ is not compliant to the C standard and does not support
-the inline assembly used in FFmpeg.
-If you wish - for whatever weird reason - to use Visual C++ for your
-project then you can link the Visual C++ code with libav* as long as
-you compile the latter with a working C compiler. For more information, see
-the @emph{Visual C++ compatibility} section in the FFmpeg documentation.
-
-There have been efforts to make FFmpeg compatible with Visual C++ in the
-past. However, they have all been rejected as too intrusive, especially
-since MinGW does the job perfectly adequately. None of the core developers
-work with Visual C++ and thus this item is low priority. Should you find
-the silver bullet that solves this problem, feel free to shoot it at us.
-
 @section I have a file in memory / a API different from *open/*read/ libc how do i use it with libavformat ?
 
 You have to implement a URLProtocol, see libavformat/file.c in FFmpeg