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authorMichael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>2012-05-14 20:12:47 +0200
committerMichael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>2012-05-14 20:17:24 +0200
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'qatar/master'
* qatar/master: (25 commits) vcr1: Add vcr1_ prefixes to all static functions with generic names. vcr1: Fix return type of common_init to match the function pointer signature. vcr1enc: Replace obsolete get_bit_count by put_bits_count/flush_put_bits. motion-test: remove disabled code gxfenc: remove disabled half-implemented MJPEG tag x86: use more standard construct for setting ASM functions in FFT code fate: westwood-aud: disable decoding fate: caf: disable decoding fate: film-cvid: drop pcm audio and rename test fate: d-cinema-demux: drop unnecessary flags fate: split off dpcm-interplay from interplay-mve tests fate: rename funcom-iss to adpcm-ima-iss fate: rename cryo-apc to adpcm-ima-apc fate: rename adpcm-psx-str-v3 to adpcm-xa fate: split off adpcm-ms-mono test from dxa-feeble fate: split off adpcm-ima-ws test from vqa-cc fate: add adpcm-ima-smjpeg test fate: split off adpcm-ima-amv from amv test fate: separate bmv audio and video tests fate: separate delphine-cin audio and video tests ... Conflicts: doc/platform.texi libavcodec/vcr1.c tests/fate/audio.mak tests/fate/demux.mak tests/fate/video.mak tests/ref/fate/ea-mad-pcm-planar tests/ref/fate/interplay-mve-16bit tests/ref/fate/interplay-mve-8bit tests/ref/fate/mtv tests/ref/fate/qtrle-1bit tests/ref/fate/qtrle-2bit tests/ref/fate/truemotion1-15 tests/ref/fate/truemotion1-24 tests/ref/fate/vqa-cc Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
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diff --git a/doc/platform.texi b/doc/platform.texi
index d1a1f94481..d0db8aed62 100644
--- a/doc/platform.texi
+++ b/doc/platform.texi
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ section and the FAQ.
FFmpeg does not build out-of-the-box with the packages the automated MinGW
installer provides. It also requires coreutils to be installed and many other
-packages updated to the latest version. The minimum version for some packages
+packages updated to the latest version. The minimum versions for some packages
are listed below:
@itemize
@@ -109,14 +109,11 @@ Notes:
@item Building natively using MSYS can be sped up by disabling implicit rules
in the Makefile by calling @code{make -r} instead of plain @code{make}. This
speed up is close to non-existent for normal one-off builds and is only
-noticeable when running make for a second time (for example in
+noticeable when running make for a second time (for example during
@code{make install}).
@item In order to compile FFplay, you must have the MinGW development library
-of @uref{http://www.libsdl.org/, SDL}.
-Edit the @file{bin/sdl-config} script so that it points to the correct prefix
-where SDL was installed. Verify that @file{sdl-config} can be launched from
-the MSYS command line.
+of @uref{http://www.libsdl.org/, SDL} and @code{pkg-config} installed.
@item By using @code{./configure --enable-shared} when configuring FFmpeg,
you can build the FFmpeg libraries (e.g. libavutil, libavcodec,
@@ -140,7 +137,7 @@ you might have to modify the procedures slightly.
@subsection Using static libraries
-Assuming you have just built and installed FFmpeg in @file{/usr/local}.
+Assuming you have just built and installed FFmpeg in @file{/usr/local}:
@enumerate
@@ -288,14 +285,11 @@ are stored.
@item Generate new import libraries with @file{lib.exe}:
@example
-lib /machine:i386 /def:..\lib\avcodec-53.def /out:avcodec.lib
-lib /machine:i386 /def:..\lib\avdevice-53.def /out:avdevice.lib
-lib /machine:i386 /def:..\lib\avfilter-2.def /out:avfilter.lib
-lib /machine:i386 /def:..\lib\avformat-53.def /out:avformat.lib
-lib /machine:i386 /def:..\lib\avutil-51.def /out:avutil.lib
-lib /machine:i386 /def:..\lib\swscale-2.def /out:swscale.lib
+lib /machine:i386 /def:..\lib\foo-version.def /out:foo.lib
@end example
+Replace @code{foo-version} and @code{foo} with the respective library names.
+
@end enumerate
@anchor{Cross compilation for Windows with Linux}
@@ -337,8 +331,8 @@ Then run
to make a static build.
-The current @code{gcc4-core} package is buggy and needs this flag to build
-shared libraries:
+To build shared libraries add a special compiler flag to work around current
+@code{gcc4-core} package bugs in addition to the normal configure flags:
@example
./configure --enable-shared --disable-static --extra-cflags=-fno-reorder-functions
@@ -358,11 +352,8 @@ yasm, libSDL-devel, libfaac-devel, libaacplus-devel, libgsm-devel, libmp3lame-de
libschroedinger1.0-devel, speex-devel, libtheora-devel, libxvidcore-devel
@end example
-The recommendation for libnut and x264 is to build them from source by
-yourself, as they evolve too quickly for Cygwin Ports to be up to date.
-
-Cygwin 1.7.x has IPv6 support. You can add IPv6 to Cygwin 1.5.x by means
-of the @code{libgetaddrinfo-devel} package, available at Cygwin Ports.
+The recommendation for x264 is to build it from source, as it evolves too
+quickly for Cygwin Ports to be up to date.
@section Crosscompilation for Windows under Cygwin