[FFmpeg-devel] [MSVC toolchain] Patch to allow building FFmpeg with Linux bash on Windows (WSL)

wm4 nfxjfg at googlemail.com
Fri Dec 29 13:54:19 EET 2017


On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 10:44:21 +0100
Hendrik Leppkes <h.leppkes at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 3:43 AM, Cyber Sinh <cyber.sinh at free.fr> wrote:
> > The attached patch changes the configure script for FFmpeg (and associated
> > shell scripts) to call MSVC tools including their extensions (cl.exe instead
> > of cl for example). This is necessary, because WSL can automatically launch
> > Windows processes from the Linux side but only if the process is in the path
> > and includes the full name. Linux doesn't automatically append .exe and such
> > to invoke a file.
> >
> >  
> 
> The attached file is corrupted. Please ensure its in git format-patch
> format. As it is, I can't even read it at all.

It's in UTF-16, and just a diff. Yeah, nobody can comfortably read it.


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