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

[Jaka Bac]

On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 at 13:26, Timo Rothenpieler <timo at rothenpieler.org>
wrote:

> On 31.07.2020 13:17, Julio César Rocha wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> I don't, why would I?
> I just installed mingw via Ubuntu repos.
>

You would want to use MSVC if you want to build shared libs and use them
with any other application that is compiled using MSVC or Intel C++.
struct layout is in C is compiler implementation specific (without
programmer intervention). And many functions use structs as for parameters
making ffmpeg shared libs compiled by GCC unusable in an application
compiled with MSVC