[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Mimic decoder

[Ramiro Polla]

Ramiro Polla wrote:
> Mike Melanson wrote:
>> Ramiro Polla wrote:
>>> The project I'm the most interested in for GSoC is one that might just 
>>> start a flamewar: Port FFmpeg to Visual Studio.
>>> I'm not sure it is even welcome by most devs, but if it is, I'll try my 
>>> best to write a clean port. It would involve using the same build system 
>>> we currently have, using wgcc as a cl.exe wrapper, importing some 
>>> missing POSIX functionality from MinGW, and using MinGW to compile the 
>>> extensive asm we have (except inline asm). It would actually be a hybrid 
>>> build (MinGW+MSVC). Should I put more effort into this or is everyone 
>>> against this just for the sake of bashing Windows?
>> Would I be able to test the configuration automatically using a Python
>> script?
> 
> That's what I'll aim for =)
> 
> Using MSYS (or maybe Cygwin): ./configure ; make ; make install

Actually it'd be something like
./configure --enable-msvc (...)