[FFmpeg-user] Preparing to compile ffmpeg from git source -- stuck

[Mark Filipak]

On 04/12/2020 07:43 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> Am Mo., 13. Apr. 2020 um 01:33 Uhr schrieb Mark Filipak
> <markfilipak.windows+ffmpeg at gmail.com>:
>>
>> On 04/12/2020 07:24 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
>>> Am Mo., 13. Apr. 2020 um 01:18 Uhr schrieb Mark Filipak
>>> <markfilipak.windows+ffmpeg at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> I'd like to give the path described by the ffmpeg docs a try. If that
>>>> doesn't work, then I'll try your path. Okay?
>>>
>>> Obviously not.
>>>
>>> But otoh: What else should I have expected?
> 
>> I don't know why it's *obviously not* okay to follow the path outlined
>> in the ffmpeg docs, but so be it.
>>
>> I don't know what you mean by "What else should I have expected?"
> 
> I suggested to use wsl because that is how I compile FFmpeg on Windows
> and this works (surprisingly) fast and very similar to compiling on other
> platforms.
> Last time I tested msys, it was not fast, I don't know if this has changed.
> I consider installing wsl simple, last time I installed msys, it was less
> simple, I don't know if this has changed.
> 
> I suspect the "ffmpeg docs" (not sure what exactly you mean with it) were
> written before wsl existed.
> 
> But given our exchange so far, I wasn't extremely surprised that you
> did not want to follow what I suggested.

Because you scare the piss out of me, Carl Eugen. I understand so little of what you write, and you 
(and others) get so angry when I don't.

> If you absolutely want to cross-compile from a Linux box for Windows,
> this also works fine but I always only saw disadvantages. That is why
> I suggested wsl.
> 
> Carl Eugen
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