[FFmpeg-devel] [VOTE] drop support for using libav* compiled with mingw/cygwin in msvc

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 07:42:40PM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:08:03PM +0100, Luca Abeni wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >> 
> >> M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> >> [...]
> >> >> I was already mildly against this change
> >> >> before it was commited though i left it to mans to decide. Now as it
> >> >> breaks use of libav* under msvc iam more strongly against it ...
> >> >>
> >> >> Anyway, my vote is to revert it. Theres no advantage in this commit and
> >> >> it breaks what was supported and also documented as such in the docs.
> >> > 
> >> > The advantage has already been presented and agreed with by several
> >> > people.
> >> 
> >> I did not look at the details of the change, but I am wondering if there
> >> is some way to have these advantages without breaking support for msvc...
> >
> > Yes, make configure extract "(12<<16) + (3<<8) + 4" convert it to "12.3.4"
> > and add this to config.h
> 
> The installed headers don't have config.h, so that won't work.

Why is "12.3.4" part of the public interface anyway? It makes no sense
to me..

Rich