[FFmpeg-devel] Create .lib static libraries on Windows instead of .a libraries (using MSVC compiler)

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 10:11 PM, Mateusz <mateuszb at poczta.onet.pl> wrote:
> W dniu 2017-09-27 o 17:40, Hendrik Leppkes pisze:
>> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 4:43 PM, Anonymous Maarten
>> <anonymous.maarten at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> Building the static ffmpeg library using vcpkg is currently broken [1][2].
>>> This is mainly due to the fact that the built static libraries are .a files
>>> with lib prefixes.
>>>
>>> The attached patch sets the lib prefix to "" and the lib suffix to ".lib".
>>>
>>> Tested by building ffmpeg using vcpkg and Visual Studio 2017 Community
>>> Edition on Windows 10.
>>> The resulted libraries link correctly to my application.
>>>
>> This would break the workflow for everyone that is currently working
>> with the current names, however.
>
> For gcc it breaks nothing (it still makes lib...a files), for msvc it is improvement.
> Is there any person happy with lib...a names for lib in msvc?
>

It doesn't really matter if you're happy with it or not, if you change
it stuff will still break.

- Hendrik