[Ffmpeg-devel] Compilation for Windows under Cygwin

[Vincent Honnet]

Hi Rob,

Thank you for your answer. I didn't know the difference. I was using 
MinGW only as a compiler. I try and I don't ask stupid question anymore.

Vincent

Robert Lippmann a ?crit :

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>>I'm sorry M. Niedermayer, but I download a version of tool and if this
>>version it is writen that it should compile, I don't why I should use
>>the version of CVS ! I understand that it could not work with the "pre"
>>version but not with the 0.4.8 ! Moreover, the purpose was not really
>>the fact that it does not compile but that it does not compile under
>>Cygwin with MinGW wit hthe goal of using VS .Net.
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>MinGW != Cygwin
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>cygwin uses a dll to provide posix emulation (which must be installed on the
>target machine).  it tends to be more posix complete/feature rich than mingw
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>mingw statically links in selected common "standard" posix functions.
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>the mingw stuff inside cygwin is to allow a cygwin environment to use gcc to
>cross compile into mingw via the -mno-cygwin flag.
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>all the configure flag of --enable-mingw32 is doing is telling configure to
>assume that a mingw environment is present.
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>This may or may not be the case depending upon if the mingw stuff was
>installed via the cygwin-mingw packages in cygwin setup.
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>so, as your pretty much cross compiling for mingw anyway, and using some
>cygwin hacks, doesn't it just make more sense to install mingw and use it?
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>and there's the added bonus that the mingw compilations been tested and is
>supported.
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>-- rob
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