Commit 8484503e authored by Víctor Paesa's avatar Víctor Paesa

Bring up to date the Cygwin docs.

Originally committed as revision 16287 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
parent 5cb5023c
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@subsection Compilation under Cygwin
The main issue with Cygwin is that newlib, its C library, does not
contain llrint(). However, it is possible to leverage the
implementation in MinGW.
The main issue with the 1.5.x Cygwin versions is that newlib, its C library,
does not contain llrint(). You need to upgrade to the unstable 1.7.x versions,
or leverage the implementation in MinGW (as explained below).
Just install your Cygwin with all the "Base" packages, plus the
following "Devel" ones:
......@@ -672,8 +672,8 @@ following "Devel" ones:
binutils, gcc-core, make, subversion, mingw-runtime, diffutils
@end example
Do not install binutils-20060709-1 (they are buggy on shared builds);
use binutils-20050610-1 instead.
Install the current binutils-20080624-2 as they work fine (the old
binutils-20060709-1 proved buggy on shared builds).
Then create a small library that just contains llrint():
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