Comments on: Building ffmpeg for Windows with MSYS and MinGW http://www.gooli.org/blog/building-ffmpeg-for-windows-with-msys-and-mingw/ on software development and related issues Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:02:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: ltomak http://www.gooli.org/blog/building-ffmpeg-for-windows-with-msys-and-mingw/#comment-6096 ltomak Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:11:36 +0000 http://www.gooli.org/blog/building-ffmpeg-for-windows-with-msys-and-mingw/#comment-6096 to solve "libavdevice/vfwcap.c" related erros use download and install w32api-3.12-mingw32-dev.tar. to solve “libavdevice/vfwcap.c” related erros use download and install w32api-3.12-mingw32-dev.tar.

]]> By: Ian http://www.gooli.org/blog/building-ffmpeg-for-windows-with-msys-and-mingw/#comment-5850 Ian Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:35:32 +0000 http://www.gooli.org/blog/building-ffmpeg-for-windows-with-msys-and-mingw/#comment-5850 First off thanks hugely for all the info on this page, really helpful. Ive now managed to at least get the make to begin but i get a problem in the source with the 'CAPTUREPARAMS' as an undelcared identifier in the 'libavdevice/vfwcap.c' file. Anyone have any idea how to fix? Also, i couldnt work out how to copy and paste so i cant show you the entire error output - any ideas how to do that too? Thanks in advance, Ian First off thanks hugely for all the info on this page, really helpful. Ive now managed to at least get the make to begin but i get a problem in the source with the ‘CAPTUREPARAMS’ as an undelcared identifier in the ‘libavdevice/vfwcap.c’ file.

Anyone have any idea how to fix? Also, i couldnt work out how to copy and paste so i cant show you the entire error output - any ideas how to do that too?

Thanks in advance,
Ian

]]> By: rgk http://www.gooli.org/blog/building-ffmpeg-for-windows-with-msys-and-mingw/#comment-4510 rgk Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:35:30 +0000 http://www.gooli.org/blog/building-ffmpeg-for-windows-with-msys-and-mingw/#comment-4510 One other thing.. as Jer noted above... ALL configure options are preceded with a DOUBLE DASH. ...this discussion board strips off the double dash i just noticed, so when you cutr and paste you will get errors unless you put them back ./configure ---extra-cflags="-mno-cygwin -mms-bitfields" ---extra-ldflags="-Wl -add-stdcall-alias" ---enable-memalign-hack ---target-os=mingw32 ---enable-shared ---disable-static One other thing.. as Jer noted above…

ALL configure options are preceded with a DOUBLE DASH.

…this discussion board strips off the double dash i just noticed, so when you cutr and paste you will get errors unless you put them back

./configure —extra-cflags=”-mno-cygwin -mms-bitfields” —extra-ldflags=”-Wl -add-stdcall-alias” —enable-memalign-hack —target-os=mingw32 —enable-shared —disable-static

]]> By: rgk http://www.gooli.org/blog/building-ffmpeg-for-windows-with-msys-and-mingw/#comment-4509 rgk Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:31:12 +0000 http://www.gooli.org/blog/building-ffmpeg-for-windows-with-msys-and-mingw/#comment-4509 The following myconfig worked for me ./configure --extra-cflags="-mno-cygwin -mms-bitfields" --extra-ldflags="-Wl -add-stdcall-alias" --enable-memalign-hack --target-os=mingw32 --enable-shared --disable-static How ever I had to make some changes to msys to get all of this to work properly 1)Install msysDTS (msysDTK-1.0.1.exe) 2)Install MSYS Core 1.0.11. (msysCORE-1.0.11-2007.01.19-1.tar.bz2) 3)Install msys coreutils (coreutils-5.97-MSYS-1.0.11-snapshot.tar.bz2) 4)Update bash to v.31 (bash_3.1_MSYS-1.0.11) 5)Update make to version 3.81 (make-3.81-MSYS-1.0.11-2) got all of the above from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/ or http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435 Then compile went cleanly.. Hope this helps some of the folks.. The following myconfig worked for me

./configure –extra-cflags=”-mno-cygwin -mms-bitfields” –extra-ldflags=”-Wl -add-stdcall-alias” –enable-memalign-hack –target-os=mingw32 –enable-shared –disable-static

How ever I had to make some changes to msys to get all of this to work properly

1)Install msysDTS (msysDTK-1.0.1.exe)

2)Install MSYS Core 1.0.11. (msysCORE-1.0.11-2007.01.19-1.tar.bz2)

3)Install msys coreutils (coreutils-5.97-MSYS-1.0.11-snapshot.tar.bz2)

4)Update bash to v.31 (bash_3.1_MSYS-1.0.11)

5)Update make to version 3.81 (make-3.81-MSYS-1.0.11-2)

got all of the above from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/
or
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435

Then compile went cleanly..
Hope this helps some of the folks..

]]> By: Marco L. http://www.gooli.org/blog/building-ffmpeg-for-windows-with-msys-and-mingw/#comment-4158 Marco L. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:19:18 +0000 http://www.gooli.org/blog/building-ffmpeg-for-windows-with-msys-and-mingw/#comment-4158 Hi, nice guide! I followed all your steps, and I have made all the dll (avcodec-51.dll, avformar-52.dll, avutil-49.dll and avdevice-52.dll) but I have another problem! When I want to encode a frame with Visual Studio and I use the avcodec_encode_video, at the second call of this function there is an exception: Eccezione first-chance occurred in avcodec-51.dll in EncodeMpeg4.exe: 0xC00000FD: Stack overflow. Eccezione non gestita occurred in avcodec-51.dll in EncodeMpeg4.exe: 0xC00000FD: Stack overflow. Someone tell me there is a problem with the stack alignment. This kinf of error appear only when I encode a frame (AVPicture in PIX_FMT_YUV420P) not appear when I decode a stream of byte with the avcodec_decode_video. Obviously I have made any kind of initialization like avcodec_init, av_register_all, avcodec_register_all, ... Any idea? Thanx in advance :) Hi, nice guide! I followed all your steps, and I have made all the dll (avcodec-51.dll, avformar-52.dll, avutil-49.dll and avdevice-52.dll) but I have another problem!
When I want to encode a frame with Visual Studio and I use the avcodec_encode_video, at the second call of this function there is an exception:

Eccezione first-chance occurred in avcodec-51.dll in EncodeMpeg4.exe: 0xC00000FD: Stack overflow.
Eccezione non gestita occurred in avcodec-51.dll in EncodeMpeg4.exe: 0xC00000FD: Stack overflow.

Someone tell me there is a problem with the stack alignment.
This kinf of error appear only when I encode a frame (AVPicture in PIX_FMT_YUV420P) not appear when I decode a stream of byte with the avcodec_decode_video.
Obviously I have made any kind of initialization like avcodec_init, av_register_all, avcodec_register_all, …

Any idea?
Thanx in advance :)

]]> By: Jer http://www.gooli.org/blog/building-ffmpeg-for-windows-with-msys-and-mingw/#comment-3264 Jer Sun, 11 May 2008 09:21:18 +0000 http://www.gooli.org/blog/building-ffmpeg-for-windows-with-msys-and-mingw/#comment-3264 ADDENDUM: You will also need ffmpeg/libavdevice/avdevice-52.dll (and avformat is avformat-52.dll with latest ffmpeg) Happy ffmpeging ADDENDUM:

You will also need ffmpeg/libavdevice/avdevice-52.dll

(and avformat is avformat-52.dll with latest ffmpeg)

Happy ffmpeging

]]> By: Jer http://www.gooli.org/blog/building-ffmpeg-for-windows-with-msys-and-mingw/#comment-3263 Jer Sun, 11 May 2008 09:16:06 +0000 http://www.gooli.org/blog/building-ffmpeg-for-windows-with-msys-and-mingw/#comment-3263 Extract coreutils downloaded from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/coreutils-5.97-MSYS-1.0.11-snapshot.tar.bz2?modtime=1188741011&big_mirror=1 into c:/msys/1.0 so that it overwrites items in subdirs (bin, lib, etc.) I opened the .tar.bz2 with 7zip, went down 2 levels, highlighted the 4 or 5 folders, copied them and pasted in c:\mingw. decend to c:\mingw\libexec\mingw32\3.45\ copy the 6 .exe's there. ascend to c:\mingw\bin paste. Update make: download from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/make-3.81-MSYS-1.0.11-2.tar.bz2?modtime=1206477681&big_mirror=1 extract bin and share folder to c:\msys\1.0 (allow to overwrite) start c:\msys\1.0\msys.bat type out: ./configure --extra-cflags-"-mnt-cygwin -mms-bitfields" --extra-ldflags="-Wl, -add-stdcall-alias" --enable-memalign-hack --enable-shared --disable-static --target-os=mingw32_nt-6.0 double - before 'extra' 'enable' 'disable' and 'target'. Wl is a capital W and a small L. **target OS I put mingw32_nt-6.0. My windows boot is Vista. Not sure if it is required to be that way but it worked. (or you can put in myconfig and run c/work/ffmpeg/myconfig. I'm just used to typing out ./configure lines because I end up compiling a lot of stuff on linux and the myconfig method seems like the long way around to me.) Run make, et voila! Enjoy. Extract coreutils downloaded from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/coreutils-5.97-MSYS-1.0.11-snapshot.tar.bz2?modtime=1188741011&big_mirror=1
into c:/msys/1.0 so that it overwrites items in subdirs (bin, lib, etc.) I opened the .tar.bz2 with 7zip, went down 2 levels, highlighted the 4 or 5 folders, copied them and pasted in c:\mingw.

decend to c:\mingw\libexec\mingw32\3.45\
copy the 6 .exe’s there.
ascend to c:\mingw\bin
paste.

Update make:
download from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/make-3.81-MSYS-1.0.11-2.tar.bz2?modtime=1206477681&big_mirror=1
extract bin and share folder to c:\msys\1.0 (allow to overwrite)

start c:\msys\1.0\msys.bat

type out:

./configure –extra-cflags-”-mnt-cygwin -mms-bitfields” –extra-ldflags=”-Wl, -add-stdcall-alias” –enable-memalign-hack –enable-shared –disable-static –target-os=mingw32_nt-6.0

double - before ‘extra’ ‘enable’ ‘disable’ and ‘target’. Wl is a capital W and a small L.

**target OS I put mingw32_nt-6.0. My windows boot is Vista. Not sure if it is required to be that way but it worked.

(or you can put in myconfig and run c/work/ffmpeg/myconfig. I’m just used to typing out ./configure lines because I end up compiling a lot of stuff on linux and the myconfig method seems like the long way around to me.)

Run make, et voila! Enjoy.

]]> By: Keka http://www.gooli.org/blog/building-ffmpeg-for-windows-with-msys-and-mingw/#comment-3196 Keka Tue, 06 May 2008 21:38:06 +0000 http://www.gooli.org/blog/building-ffmpeg-for-windows-with-msys-and-mingw/#comment-3196 Hi, I am green at this and need help. I have followed the guide up to the point of executing the Make command.I am getting the message ***No rule to make target 'libavdevice/avdevide.dll'needed by 'all' .Stop How do I resolve this? regards Keka Hi, I am green at this and need help. I have followed the guide up to the point of executing the Make command.I am getting the message ***No rule to make target ‘libavdevice/avdevide.dll’needed by ‘all’ .Stop

How do I resolve this?
regards Keka

]]> By: ZeOn http://www.gooli.org/blog/building-ffmpeg-for-windows-with-msys-and-mingw/#comment-3089 ZeOn Thu, 01 May 2008 07:57:49 +0000 http://www.gooli.org/blog/building-ffmpeg-for-windows-with-msys-and-mingw/#comment-3089 The solution is as followed: download the coreutils and in the myconfig just put: #!/bin/sh ./configure --extra-cflags="-mno-cygwin -mms-bitfields" --extra-ldflags="-Wl,-add-stdcall-alias" --enable-memalign-hack --target-os=mingw32 --enable-shared --disable-static =>- becomes -- only when it's between "" it's a single - Greetings The solution is as followed:
download the coreutils and in the myconfig just put:
#!/bin/sh
./configure –extra-cflags=”-mno-cygwin -mms-bitfields” –extra-ldflags=”-Wl,-add-stdcall-alias” –enable-memalign-hack –target-os=mingw32 –enable-shared –disable-static

=>- becomes — only when it’s between “” it’s a single -
Greetings

]]> By: Richard http://www.gooli.org/blog/building-ffmpeg-for-windows-with-msys-and-mingw/#comment-2886 Richard Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:45:53 +0000 http://www.gooli.org/blog/building-ffmpeg-for-windows-with-msys-and-mingw/#comment-2886 Hi, I followed all your steps to complie the FFMpeg, but after I run the ./myconfig in the mingw32, there's errers : " gcc is unable to create an executeable file. C compiler test failed. " Could you please help me ? what I should do to fix this problem ? Thank you very much. If possible, could we make friends ? msn : netwheat@hotmail.com skype : iamwheat yahoo : wheatinthesky Regards Richard Hi,
I followed all your steps to complie the FFMpeg, but after I run the ./myconfig in the mingw32, there’s errers : ”
gcc is unable to create an executeable file.
C compiler test failed.
”

Could you please help me ? what I should do to fix this problem ? Thank you very much.

If possible, could we make friends ?
msn : netwheat@hotmail.com
skype : iamwheat
yahoo : wheatinthesky

Regards
Richard

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