[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Use _snprintf for mingw build

[Zuxy Meng]

Hi,

2007/10/15, Fred Rothganger <fred at rothganger.org>:
> Zuxy Meng wrote:
> > I don't think MSVC is a supported platform.
> True.  In fact, one exposes himself to censure by even daring to use it. :)
>
> However, I'm not trying to compile FFmpeg under MSVC, but merely to link
> to mingw binaries.
>
> >  Furthermore MS's _snprintf
> > isn't the same as snprintf: the result of the former isn't guaranteed
> > to be zero terminated.
> >
> > Actually MinGW runtime has provided a sane snprintf.
> >
> Are you suggesting there is a way to link in a better snprintf() when
> building a executable image using MSVC?  If so, please advise on the
> procedure.  Would this consist of linking one of the libmsvcr*.a files
> from the mingw directory and completely suppressing any automatic
> linkage of the MSVC runtime?

You can either:

1. Convert libmingwex.a to a .lib and link it to your program.
2. Find the source of MinGW's snprintf (in mingw32-src tarball IIRC)
and add it to your project.

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