[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] build: use Windows path for MSVC

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 4:27 PM, Andreas Cadhalpun
<andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 23.01.2016 15:07, Hendrik Leppkes wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Andreas Cadhalpun
>> <andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> On 23.01.2016 14:48, Hendrik Leppkes wrote:
>>>> Unfortunately, cygpath is not guaranteed to be available, and in fact
>>>> is not on some working build setups today (ie. msys1 environments with
>>>> msvc)
>>>
>>> Is there another way to get the Windows path on those environments?
>>>
>>
>> Not that I am aware.
>
> Hmm, sed should be available everywhere.
>
> Does the attached patch fix the MSVC builds?
>

Unfortunately these assumptions are also not valid. On cygwin for
example, a path would be /cygdrive/C/path/to/folder
Dealing with absolute paths in the unix/windows mixture is just not
going to be easy, which is why we were careful to avoid them at all
before.

- Hendrik