[Libav-user] Building with MSVC toolchain resulting in seeking problem?

[John Orr]

On 3/12/2013 11:36 AM, Hendrik Leppkes wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 4:33 PM, John Orr <john.orr at scala.com> wrote:
>> On 3/12/2013 11:14 AM, Hendrik Leppkes wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at>
>>> wrote:
>>>> John Orr <john.orr at ...> writes:
>>>>
>>>>>        if (whence == AVSEEK_SIZE) {
>>>>> #ifndef _MSC_VER
>>>>>            struct stat st;
>>>>>
>>>>>            ret = fstat(c->fd, &st);
>>>>> #else
>>
>> ...
>>
>>
>>>>> Perhaps you could (fix the whitespace and) send a patch
>>>>> to ffmpeg-devel or set up a git clone to allow merging?
>>>>>
>>> If you send a patch, then first look at libavformat/os_support.h, it
>>> already has defines for mingw to map these functions, and should
>>> probably be enhanced there, instead of cluttering file.c with #ifdefs.
>>
>> I'll be glad to try to fix it properly.  Bear in mind that I'm not so well
>> versed in making patches.
>>
>> --Johno
>>
> No worries, the fix (in theory) is so trivial that I'll simply send a
> patch to ffmpeg-devel in a few minutes, if you could test it out to
> confirm, that would be great.
>


OK, will do.

--Johno