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

[Ramiro Ribeiro Polla]

Zuxy Meng wrote:
> 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.
>   

No need. MSVC understands gcc generated .a files (and .o too).

Fred, there are no known issues on using FFmpeg's libs with MSVC if you 
follow this wiki [1] correctly. If you encounter any problems with it, 
please discuss on the forum hosted on the same site.

Ramiro Polla
[1] http://arrozcru.no-ip.org/ffmpeg_wiki/