[FFmpeg-devel] Re: Consider using CMake.

["Rémi Denis-Courmont via ffmpeg-devel" <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org>]

Le lauantaina 24. tammikuuta 2026, 14.32.39 Itä-Euroopan normaaliaika crueter 
via ffmpeg-devel a écrit :
> Meson is even slower than the horribly written configure script AND has a
> hard dependency on Python. Absolutely not.

Ultimately you're free to port the FFmpeg build system to CMake yourself (or 
pay someone to do so), and submit a PR showing how so much better it actually 
is. Just don't be surprised if people reject it on the basis that it does not 
work or is no better, or even actually worse, for most purposes other than 
building FFmpeg on MSVC.

By the way, that includes building FFmpeg for Windows with an actual C/C++ 
toolchain (MingW or LLVM/Clang) from Linux or WSL, rather than using a sorry 
approximation of one such as MSVC.

However your phrasing seems to indicate that you have no intention of actually 
conducting that work. So then, there is no point in continuing this 
discussion, because nobody else is going to try to do such it either.

-- 
Rémi Denis-Courmont
https://www.remlab.net/



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