[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v1] avformat/ipfsgateway: define PATH_MAX

[Mark Gaiser]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 10:25 AM Martin Storsjö <martin at martin.st> wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Apr 2022, Mark Gaiser wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 5:21 PM Mark Gaiser <markg85 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> PATH_MAX is posix. Some compilers (MSVC) don't define this
> >> thus failing to compile the ipfsgateway file.
> >> Defining it fixes the compile.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Mark Gaiser <markg85 at gmail.com>
> >> ---
> >>  libavformat/ipfsgateway.c | 6 ++++++
> >>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/libavformat/ipfsgateway.c b/libavformat/ipfsgateway.c
> >> index ed37e552dd..9b0d3dea59 100644
> >> --- a/libavformat/ipfsgateway.c
> >> +++ b/libavformat/ipfsgateway.c
> >> @@ -25,6 +25,12 @@
> >>  #include "os_support.h"
> >>  #include "url.h"
> >>
> >> +// Define the posix PATH_MAX if not there already.
> >> +// This fixes a compile issue for MSVC.
> >> +#ifndef PATH_MAX
> >> +#define PATH_MAX 4096
> >> +#endif
> >> +
> >>  typedef struct IPFSGatewayContext {
> >>      AVClass *class;
> >>      URLContext *inner;
> >> --
> >> 2.35.1
> >
> > I did verify the size of PATH_MAX. On my pc (arch with GCC compiler)
> > this value is defined as 4096. That seems enough to me. Another way to
> > fix this is to add it in os_support.h. I didn't add it there because
> > ipfsgateway.c is currently the only cross-platform code that makes use
> > of this.
> >
> > Lastly, I don't have an MSVC compiler and windows to test this on.
> > I hope someone else in that setup can verify that this does indeed fix
> the
> > ffmpeg master build?
>
> This looks like a reasonable fix to at least make things build correctly
> again (and it does fix the issue).
>
> FWIW, the corresponding Windows define is MAX_PATH, which usually is 260,
> so setting it to 4096 here is probably more than enough if a hardcoded
> value is needed.
>
> // Martin
>

Glad it works! Thank you for testing.

I don't have commit/merge powers so I leave that in the capable hands of
those that can.

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