[FFmpeg-devel] Building with WSL instead of MSYS?

Timo Rothenpieler timo at rothenpieler.org
Fri Jul 31 14:02:29 EEST 2020


On 31.07.2020 09:41, Julio César Rocha wrote:
> Hi. I recently submitted a patch to enable building the Windows flavor with
> Windows Subsystem for Linux as an alternative to MSYS / CYGWIN.
> 
> I got the feedback that people are already able to achieve this.
> 
> Has anyone achieved this without patching the sources (out of the box)?
> If so, could you please share your config steps?

I'm building ffmpeg in WSL for over a year now, if not longer.
Never needed any patches or anything.
For all that ffmpegs build system is concerned it's a normal 
cross-compile from Linux to Windows.



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