[FFmpeg-devel] Re: Consider using CMake.

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"MSVC works fine! Just go to MSYS2 first"

That isn't "working", that's a horrible workaround. Not to mention this 
is a nightmare to script or run in a CI environment.

Again, *I have tried this and it isn't good.* It's very prone to 
breaking and pretty much impossible to make any meaningful changes. Not 
to mention it almost never works

 > Porting everything to any other build system without causing an 
endless slew of regressions and dropping support for a ton of targets is 
virtually impossible.

Call me crazy but I don't think FFmpeg needs to support somebody's 2003 
toaster running a 200 MHz POWER4. Everything else is trivial to keep 
support for, because *CMake literally runs everywhere.* See 
https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/variable/CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME.html.

On 1/23/26 9:49 PM, Timo Rothenpieler via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> That's very unlikely to happen.
> The current scripts support building using msvc just fine.
> Porting everything to any other build system without causing an 
> endless slew of regressions and dropping support for a ton of targets 
> is virtually impossible.
>
> Just open a MSVC command prompt, launch C:/MSYS64/msys2.exe (or 
> wherever you installed it) or if you got it set up wsl.exe, run 
> ./configure --toolchain=msvc and build away.
>
>
>
> Timo
>
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