

Open C:\msys\msys.bat in a plain-text editor, such as notepad.exe. For that, you must have Microsoft Visual Studio, or Microsoft Visual C++. lib files can be generated by the lib command from Microsoft's Toolchain. Note this is not needed if you plan on linking against static FFmpeg libraries. If you plan on compiling your apps with MSVC++ (note: your apps, not FFmpeg), and linking them against FFmpeg DLLs, you will need to generate. Other utils from that package might be welcome too (like du and kill) but aren't necessary for compiling and running FFmpeg. Copy coreutils-5.97\bin\pr.exe to C:\msys\bin\. If you did get the error about wrong gcc path and you confirmed that gcc is now installed and in the correct path (c:\mingw), then go to c:\msys\etc and copy the file fstab.sample to fstab. Oh joy, you do not have c:/mingw/bin/make.exe. Just keep pressing Enter until the command prompt closes.Īnyways, if you got the path right, you'll get:Ĭreating /etc/fstab with mingw mount bindings.

If you got that screen, then we'll worry about it in a while. This may be because you misspelled the path, or because you haven't installed gcc yet, or because you forgot to rename gcc-sjlj.exe to gcc for the official 4.2.1 release. If you do have MinGW installed then you can manuallyīind the mount point /mingw to C:/mingw (replace C: with theĭrive of your choice) by creating an /etc/fstab file with a line If there are any errors you'll get this screen: Please answer the following in the form of c:/foo/bar. I don't have any traps as aborts will not hurt anything.ĭo you wish to continue with the post install? ĭonot Close Running Setup just extract mingw packages which we downloaded in starting in the folder c:\msys\mingwĮxtract all packages listed above in C:\msys\mingw

Your MinGW install if any as well as your previous MSYS installs This is a post install process that will try to normalize between It defaults to MinGW, but I prefer setting it to msys.Īfter a while, you'll get a screen asking: It defaults to C:\msys\1.0, but I prefer setting the install path to C:\msys.Ĭhoose where you want MSys to be located in the Start Menu. If you don't agree with the license what are you doing trying to use open source software? =)Ĭhoose where you want to install MSys. * Click Yes if you agree with the license. List of requirements for compiling on windows.įirst of all we will download all packages which we will require Please Download all Packages Listed belowġ) Create a folder name mingw here we are going to download all packages required for mingw.ĭownload #binutils-2.19.ĭownload #mingwrt3.15.ĭownload #mingwrt3.15.įor installing msys you need these two packages you can install belowĬoreutils-5.97-MSYS-1.0.2 Steps For Creating ffmpeg Dll's for windows and using vs2008
