[FFmpeg-user] Compiling ffmpeg for 64-bit platform

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Rhodri James <rhodri <at> kynesim.co.uk> writes:

> I have a vague (and painful) memory that MinGW can handle 64-bit
> compilation, but I can't find any confirmation of that.  Certainly
> it was renamed from mingw32 to avoid implying that it couldn't.

Iirc, there are two different projects, with two sets of bugs 
(implying that I lied when I said it "works fine", the truth 
is that it "works somehow" one of the reasons being that win64 
does some things different than other x64 operating systems).

Cheers, Carl Eugen