[FFmpeg-cvslog] Document usage of import libraries created by dlltool

[Martin Storsjö]

ffmpeg | branch: master | Martin Storsjö <martin at martin.st> | Tue Mar 22 15:07:16 2011 +0200| [e971d81364e93feae8c399075a3be2643192e031] | committer: Luca Barbato

Document usage of import libraries created by dlltool

Signed-off-by: Luca Barbato <lu_zero at gentoo.org>

> http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/ffmpeg.git/?a=commit;h=e971d81364e93feae8c399075a3be2643192e031
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@@ -1005,6 +1005,12 @@ libavutil/pixdesc.h you should have:
 extern __declspec(dllimport) const AVPixFmtDescriptor av_pix_fmt_descriptors[];
 @end example
 
+Note that using import libraries created by dlltool requires
+the linker optimization option to be set to
+"References: Keep Unreferenced Data (/OPT:NOREF)", otherwise
+the resulting binaries will fail during runtime. This isn't
+required when using import libraries generated by lib.exe.
+
 @subsection Cross compilation for Windows with Linux
 
 You must use the MinGW cross compilation tools available at