[FFmpeg-devel] Re: Consider using CMake.

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I probably should have expected stuck-up retards like you to immediately 
complain about "just do it yourself harr harr harr". I specifically 
created this to serve as a discussion piece, not for some 50 year old 
corporate slave to immediately start hurling cope at me.

I actually did plan to port it eventually, but now I don't really feel 
like doing it anymore because of your incredibly dismissive attitude 
towards the mere thought of someone making an objectively good change. 
Maybe I'll do it someday but add a clause to the license stating that 
you must not be named Rémi Denis-Courmont to use this. :)

 > rather than using a sorry approximation of one such as MSVC.

Again, unnecessarily dismissive. There are a huge number of use cases 
for MSVC, because it is by far the most used compiler for desktop 
targets. Do note that MinGW-built static libraries are not compatible 
with MSVC executables.

On 1/24/26 11:13 AM, Rémi Denis-Courmont via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> 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.
>
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