[Ffmpeg-devel] Network patch for MingW users

[Michel Bardiaux]

Fran?ois Revol wrote:
[snip]

>>>  
>>> +#ifdef __MINGW32__
>>> +    init_winsock();
>>> +#endif
>> Aaaaiiiieeee!  NO MORE OF THIS. PLEASE.
> 
> Also that's totally definitely non threadsafe.

Why? AFAIK WSAStartup is threadsafe. See e.g. 
http://www.tangentsoft.net/wskfaq/

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