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POBuilding ffmpeg for Windows with MSYS and MinGW
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copied!<p>I am trying to build ffmpeg for windows (Xp - SP2) as given <a href="http://www.gooli.org/blog/building-ffmpeg-for-windows-with-msys-and-mingw/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>. </p> <pre><code>./configure -–extra-cflags=”-mno-cygwin -mms-bitfields” -–extra-ldflags=”-Wl, -add-stdcall-alias” -–enable-memalign-hack -–enable-shared -–disable-static -–target-os=mingw32 </code></pre> <p>The above command is placed in a <code>myconfig</code> file as instructed and when i run <code>./myconfig</code>, the following error is displayed:</p> <pre><code>Broken Shell detected. Trying alternatives. Trying Shell bash Unknown option "-–extra-cflags=-mno-cygwin". </code></pre> <p>As suggested in the link i tried various options but still i was not able to succeed.</p> <p>My environment is Win XP with:</p> <ul> <li>MinGW-5.1.6, </li> <li>bash-2.05b-MSYS, </li> <li>MSYS-1.0.10, </li> <li>ffmpeg-0.5</li> </ul> <p><strong>EDIT:</strong> </p> <p>After certain changes in the above command by referring <a href="http://howto-pages.org/ffmpeg/#build" rel="nofollow noreferrer">howto</a> i was able to successfully run the <em>make</em> command and i found the following DLL's in their respective directory</p> <ul> <li>ffmpeg\libavcodec\avcodec-51.dll</li> <li>ffmpeg\libavformat\avformat-51.dll</li> <li>ffmpeg\libavutil\avutil-49.dll</li> </ul> <p>But i didn't see any ffmpeg\ffmpeg.exe file :(</p> <p>What could have gone wrong?</p>

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