On 27/09/2012 3:48 PM, Martin Storsjö wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, Derek Buitenhuis wrote:
> 
>> This practice is not supported by the MinGW developers, and even requires
> 
> Hmm, that was news to me (although I might not be too up to date on those 
> matters).

Oh, I had a very long (weeks) discussion with the devs about this. It is 
absolutely
unsupported.

>> patching the MinGW runtimes in newer versions. Furthermore, we now support
>> build with MSVC, so this section is rendered useless.
> 
> It's not useless even though you can build with MSVC, you might still have 
> other reasons to do it.

I don't really like the idea of encouraging things like patching the MinGW 
library
source code.

> This doesn't look right to me. Static linking itself might not be 
> supported any longer, but 96% of that section is about how to set up so 
> that a MSVC project can link to mingw-built libs in general, unrelated to 
> static libs in particular. Likewise the section on using mingw-built DLLs 
> with MSVC below say "To use those files with MSVC++, do the same as you 
> would do with the static libraries, as described above. But in Step 4..."
> 
> So instead of nuking it, the mentions of static libs perhaps can be 
> scrapped and merged with the section on using mingw-built DLLs below.

Some stuff can certainly be merged, but I think it is rather silly to
explain "How to Create a Project". Any intro to MSVS, Google, or Stack
Exchange post will work. It's not related to Libav/FFmpeg. I assume anyone
using MSVS is apt enough to know how to create a project using the very
tool.

- Derek
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