Opened 3 years ago

#9216 new defect

Outdated Windows build instructions

Reported by: pekkavaa Owned by:
Priority: minor Component: documentation
Version: git-master Keywords:
Cc: Blocked By:
Blocking: Reproduced by developer: no
Analyzed by developer: no

Description

The build instructions at https://www.ffmpeg.org/platform.html#toc-Microsoft-Visual-C_002b_002b-or-Intel-C_002b_002b-Compiler-for-Windows tells us this:

To set up a proper environment in MSYS2, you need to run msys_shell.bat from the Visual Studio or Intel Compiler command prompt.

But in the latest MSYS2 version you actually need to use a special parameter to pass the PATH variable to the shell:

msys2_shell.cmd -use-full-path

Without the flag cl.exe won't be found and running ./configure fails.

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