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

[Julio César Rocha]

Do you use the MSVC compilers?
If so, how do you get around compiling linux-type absolute paths with
cl.exe? (i.e. /home/user/src/ffmpeg/dir/file.c).
Microsoft's CL.EXE does not accept paths beginning with a forward slash.

On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 4:02 AM Timo Rothenpieler <timo at rothenpieler.org>
wrote:

> 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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