Allow compiling FFmpeg with WSL (Linux bash on Windows)

[cybersinh]

Building FFmpeg on bash under Windows is not very developer friendly yet:
​https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/gillesk/2016/12/02/building-ffmpeg-using-wsl/
​https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45610824/how-to-compile-ffmpeg-with-bash-on-windows-10

Please update the 'configure' bash script to make compiling FFmpeg in Windows as easy as it is under Linux.

Thanks!

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Neither is it obvious to me what the issues (within FFmpeg!) are that you see nor is it likely that an FFmpeg developer will work on this: The blogpost seems to indicate that a patch is upcoming, so this should be continued on the developer mailing list once the patch is sent.
(Generally, linking to external explanations is not valid here.)

[cybersinh]

The blogpost has been post for one year and no patch has been sent. The link was just for reference of first attempts to compile FFMpeg on bash on Windows.
I was expecting a developer could adapt the configure bash script to allow native compiling under WSL (bash) on Windows 10.
Should I consider this an option that will not be considered by FFmpeg developers? However, this would considerably simplify the compilation of FFmpeg on Windows.

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Replying to cybersinh:

Should I consider this an option that will not be considered by FFmpeg developers?

This question will be answered as soon as the patch is sent to the FFmpeg development mailing list.

[Hendrik]

We don't read the personal blog posts of everyone, so unless any suggested changes are sent to the mailing list, we are generally not aware of them.

[cybersinh]

OK. A patch has just been sent to the FFmpeg development mailing list.

[juniel_katarn]

Replying to cybersinh:

OK. A patch has just been sent to the FFmpeg development mailing list.

Hi, cybersinh. I recently submitted a patch to achieve this to the mailing list.
Did the patch you submitted ever get accepted?