Commit 08c3156d authored by Derek Buitenhuis's avatar Derek Buitenhuis

doc/faq: Change the Visual Studio entry to reflect current status

Signed-off-by: 's avatarDerek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis@gmail.com>
parent f8241055
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@section Is Microsoft Visual C++ supported?
No. Microsoft Visual C++ is not compliant to the C99 standard and does
not - among other things - support the inline assembly used in FFmpeg.
If you wish to use MSVC++ for your
project then you can link the MSVC++ code with libav* as long as
you compile the latter with a working C compiler. For more information, see
the @emph{Microsoft Visual C++ compatibility} section in the FFmpeg
documentation.
There have been efforts to make FFmpeg compatible with MSVC++ in the
past. However, they have all been rejected as too intrusive, especially
since MinGW does the job adequately. None of the core developers
work with MSVC++ and thus this item is low priority. Should you find
the silver bullet that solves this problem, feel free to shoot it at us.
We strongly recommend you to move over from MSVC++ to MinGW tools.
@section Can I use FFmpeg or libavcodec under Windows?
Yes, but the Cygwin or MinGW tools @emph{must} be used to compile FFmpeg.
Read the @emph{Windows} section in the FFmpeg documentation to find more
information.
To get help and instructions for building FFmpeg under Windows, check out
the FFmpeg Windows Help Forum at
@url{http://ffmpeg.arrozcru.org/}.
Yes. Please see the @uref{platform.html, Microsoft Visual C++}
section in the FFmpeg documentation.
@section Can you add automake, libtool or autoconf support?
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