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author | Ramiro Polla <ramiro.polla@gmail.com> | 2008-10-02 21:39:30 +0400 |
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committer | Ramiro Polla <ramiro.polla@gmail.com> | 2008-10-02 21:39:30 +0400 |
commit | 126cadc723b175c6db564f92b4223cbadfa38304 (patch) | |
tree | 50b27590335af095d383098cdca28f2e0f9109ff /doc | |
parent | 14660b0814fcd080daadf75ddbd0555f36558064 (diff) |
Specify minimum version for some MinGW packages.
Originally committed as revision 15521 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
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1 files changed, 14 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/general.texi b/doc/general.texi index 98ad05403d..b888980dbd 100644 --- a/doc/general.texi +++ b/doc/general.texi @@ -443,11 +443,22 @@ the FFmpeg Windows Help Forum at @subsection Native Windows compilation FFmpeg can be built to run natively on Windows using the MinGW tools. Install -the current versions of MSYS and MinGW from @url{http://www.mingw.org/}. Also -install the coreutils package, and update to the latest MSYS make (note: not -mingw32-make). You can find detailed installation +the latest versions of MSYS and MinGW from @url{http://www.mingw.org/}. +You can find detailed installation instructions in the download 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 +are listed below: + +@itemize +@item bash 3.1 +@item msys-make 3.81-2 (note: not mingw32-make) +@item w32api 3.12 +@item mingw-runtime 3.15 +@end itemize + Within the MSYS shell, configure and make with: @example @@ -464,9 +475,6 @@ Notes: @itemize -@item Use at least bash 3.1. Older versions are known to fail on the -configure script. - @item In order to compile vhooks, you must have a POSIX-compliant libdl in your MinGW system. Get dlfcn-win32 from @url{http://code.google.com/p/dlfcn-win32}. |