Commit a9d5a448 authored by Diego Biurrun's avatar Diego Biurrun

Clarify Visual Studio FAQ.

Originally committed as revision 10970 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
parent c9215bab
......@@ -360,10 +360,10 @@ It depends. If your compiler is C99-compliant, then patches to support
it are likely to be welcome if they do not pollute the source code
with @code{#ifdef}s related to the compiler.
@section Microsoft Visual C++ produces many errors.
@section Is Microsoft Visual C++ supported?
Microsoft Visual C++ is not compliant to the C standard and does not support
the inline assembly used in FFmpeg.
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 - for whatever weird reason - 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
......@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ 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 perfectly adequately. None of the core developers
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.
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