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3 @settitle Platform Specific Information
5 @center @titlefont{Platform Specific Information}
14 Some parts of FFmpeg cannot be built with version 2.15 of the GNU
15 assembler which is still provided by a few AMD64 distributions. To
16 make sure your compiler really uses the required version of gas
17 after a binutils upgrade, run:
20 $(gcc -print-prog-name=as) --version
23 If not, then you should install a different compiler that has no
24 hard-coded path to gas. In the worst case pass @code{--disable-asm}
29 BSD make will not build FFmpeg, you need to install and use GNU Make
32 @section (Open)Solaris
34 GNU Make is required to build FFmpeg, so you have to invoke (@command{gmake}),
35 standard Solaris Make will not work. When building with a non-c99 front-end
36 (gcc, generic suncc) add either @code{--extra-libs=/usr/lib/values-xpg6.o}
37 or @code{--extra-libs=/usr/lib/64/values-xpg6.o} to the configure options
38 since the libc is not c99-compliant by default. The probes performed by
39 configure may raise an exception leading to the death of configure itself
40 due to a bug in the system shell. Simply invoke a different shell such as
41 bash directly to work around this:
48 @section Darwin (Mac OS X, iPhone)
50 The toolchain provided with Xcode is sufficient to build the basic
53 Mac OS X on PowerPC or ARM (iPhone) requires a preprocessor from
54 @url{http://github.com/yuvi/gas-preprocessor} to build the optimized
55 assembler functions. Just download the Perl script and put it somewhere
56 in your PATH, FFmpeg's configure will pick it up automatically.
58 Mac OS X on amd64 and x86 requires @command{yasm} to build most of the
59 optimized assembler functions. @uref{http://www.finkproject.org/, Fink},
60 @uref{http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/bootstrap-macos.xml, Gentoo Prefix},
61 @uref{http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/, Homebrew}
62 or @uref{http://www.macports.org, MacPorts} can easily provide it.
67 Using a cross-compiler is preferred for various reasons.
68 @url{http://www.delorie.com/howto/djgpp/linux-x-djgpp.html}
73 For information about compiling FFmpeg on OS/2 see
74 @url{http://www.edm2.com/index.php/FFmpeg}.
79 To get help and instructions for building FFmpeg under Windows, check out
80 the FFmpeg Windows Help Forum at @url{http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/forum/}.
82 @section Native Windows compilation using MinGW or MinGW-w64
84 FFmpeg can be built to run natively on Windows using the MinGW or MinGW-w64
85 toolchains. Install the latest versions of MSYS and MinGW or MinGW-w64 from
86 @url{http://www.mingw.org/} or @url{http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/}.
87 You can find detailed installation instructions in the download section and
94 @item Building natively using MSYS can be sped up by disabling implicit rules
95 in the Makefile by calling @code{make -r} instead of plain @code{make}. This
96 speed up is close to non-existent for normal one-off builds and is only
97 noticeable when running make for a second time (for example during
100 @item In order to compile FFplay, you must have the MinGW development library
101 of @uref{http://www.libsdl.org/, SDL} and @code{pkg-config} installed.
103 @item By using @code{./configure --enable-shared} when configuring FFmpeg,
104 you can build the FFmpeg libraries (e.g. libavutil, libavcodec,
105 libavformat) as DLLs.
109 @section Microsoft Visual C++
111 FFmpeg can be built with MSVC using a C99-to-C89 conversion utility and
114 You will need the following prerequisites:
117 @item @uref{http://download.videolan.org/pub/contrib/c99-to-c89/, C99-to-C89 Converter & Wrapper}
118 @item @uref{http://code.google.com/p/msinttypes/, msinttypes}
119 @item @uref{http://www.mingw.org/, MSYS}
120 @item @uref{http://yasm.tortall.net/, YASM}
121 @item @uref{http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/bc.htm, bc for Windows} if
122 you want to run @uref{fate.html, FATE}.
125 To set up a proper MSVC environment in MSYS, you simply need to run
126 @code{msys.bat} from the Visual Studio command prompt.
128 Place @code{makedef}, @code{c99wrap.exe}, @code{c99conv.exe}, and @code{yasm.exe}
129 somewhere in your @code{PATH}.
131 Next, make sure @code{inttypes.h} and any other headers and libs you want to use
132 are located in a spot that MSVC can see. Do so by modifying the @code{LIB} and
133 @code{INCLUDE} environment variables to include the @strong{Windows} paths to
134 these directories. Alternatively, you can try and use the
135 @code{--extra-cflags}/@code{--extra-ldflags} configure options.
140 ./configure --toolchain=msvc
145 If you wish to compile shared libraries, add @code{--enable-shared} to your
146 configure options. Note that due to the way MSVC handles DLL imports and
147 exports, you cannot compile static and shared libraries at the same time, and
148 enabling shared libraries will automatically disable the static ones.
154 @item It is possible that coreutils' @code{link.exe} conflicts with MSVC's linker.
155 You can find out by running @code{which link} to see which @code{link.exe} you
156 are using. If it is located at @code{/bin/link.exe}, then you have the wrong one
157 in your @code{PATH}. Either move or remove that copy, or make sure MSVC's
158 @code{link.exe} takes precedence in your @code{PATH} over coreutils'.
160 @item If you wish to build with zlib support, you will have to grab a compatible
161 zlib binary from somewhere, with an MSVC import lib, or if you wish to link
162 statically, you can follow the instructions below to build a compatible
163 @code{zlib.lib} with MSVC. Regardless of which method you use, you must still
164 follow step 3, or compilation will fail.
166 @item Grab the @uref{http://zlib.net/, zlib sources}.
167 @item Edit @code{win32/Makefile.msc} so that it uses -MT instead of -MD, since
168 this is how FFmpeg is built as well.
169 @item Edit @code{zconf.h} and remove its inclusion of @code{unistd.h}. This gets
170 erroneously included when building FFmpeg.
171 @item Run @code{nmake -f win32/Makefile.msc}.
172 @item Move @code{zlib.lib}, @code{zconf.h}, and @code{zlib.h} to somewhere MSVC
176 @item FFmpeg has been tested with Visual Studio 2010 and 2012, Pro and Express.
177 Anything else is not officially supported.
181 @subsection Linking to FFmpeg with Microsoft Visual C++
183 If you plan to link with MSVC-built static libraries, you will need
184 to make sure you have @code{Runtime Library} set to
185 @code{Multi-threaded (/MT)} in your project's settings.
187 You will need to define @code{inline} to something MSVC understands:
189 #define inline __inline
192 Also note, that as stated in @strong{Microsoft Visual C++}, you will need
193 an MSVC-compatible @uref{http://code.google.com/p/msinttypes/, inttypes.h}.
195 If you plan on using import libraries created by dlltool, you must
196 set @code{References} to @code{No (/OPT:NOREF)} under the linker optimization
197 settings, otherwise the resulting binaries will fail during runtime.
198 This is not required when using import libraries generated by @code{lib.exe}.
199 This issue is reported upstream at
200 @url{http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12633}.
202 To create import libraries that work with the @code{/OPT:REF} option
203 (which is enabled by default in Release mode), follow these steps:
207 @item Open the @emph{Visual Studio Command Prompt}.
209 Alternatively, in a normal command line prompt, call @file{vcvars32.bat}
210 which sets up the environment variables for the Visual C++ tools
211 (the standard location for this file is something like
212 @file{C:\Program Files (x86_\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin\vcvars32.bat}).
214 @item Enter the @file{bin} directory where the created LIB and DLL files
217 @item Generate new import libraries with @command{lib.exe}:
220 lib /machine:i386 /def:..\lib\foo-version.def /out:foo.lib
223 Replace @code{foo-version} and @code{foo} with the respective library names.
227 @anchor{Cross compilation for Windows with Linux}
228 @section Cross compilation for Windows with Linux
230 You must use the MinGW cross compilation tools available at
231 @url{http://www.mingw.org/}.
233 Then configure FFmpeg with the following options:
235 ./configure --target-os=mingw32 --cross-prefix=i386-mingw32msvc-
237 (you can change the cross-prefix according to the prefix chosen for the
240 Then you can easily test FFmpeg with @uref{http://www.winehq.com/, Wine}.
242 @section Compilation under Cygwin
244 Please use Cygwin 1.7.x as the obsolete 1.5.x Cygwin versions lack
245 llrint() in its C library.
247 Install your Cygwin with all the "Base" packages, plus the
248 following "Devel" ones:
250 binutils, gcc4-core, make, git, mingw-runtime, texi2html
253 In order to run FATE you will also need the following "Utils" packages:
258 If you want to build FFmpeg with additional libraries, download Cygwin
259 "Devel" packages for Ogg and Vorbis from any Cygwin packages repository:
261 libogg-devel, libvorbis-devel
264 These library packages are only available from
265 @uref{http://sourceware.org/cygwinports/, Cygwin Ports}:
268 yasm, libSDL-devel, libfaac-devel, libaacplus-devel, libgsm-devel, libmp3lame-devel,
269 libschroedinger1.0-devel, speex-devel, libtheora-devel, libxvidcore-devel
272 The recommendation for x264 is to build it from source, as it evolves too
273 quickly for Cygwin Ports to be up to date.
275 @section Crosscompilation for Windows under Cygwin
277 With Cygwin you can create Windows binaries that do not need the cygwin1.dll.
279 Just install your Cygwin as explained before, plus these additional
282 gcc-mingw-core, mingw-runtime, mingw-zlib
285 and add some special flags to your configure invocation.
287 For a static build run
289 ./configure --target-os=mingw32 --extra-cflags=-mno-cygwin --extra-libs=-mno-cygwin
292 and for a build with shared libraries
294 ./configure --target-os=mingw32 --enable-shared --disable-static --extra-cflags=-mno-cygwin --extra-libs=-mno-cygwin
299 The native @uref{http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/, Plan 9} compiler
300 does not implement all the C99 features needed by FFmpeg so the gcc
301 port must be used. Furthermore, a few items missing from the C
302 library and shell environment need to be fixed.
306 @item GNU awk, grep, make, and sed
308 Working packages of these tools can be found at
309 @uref{http://code.google.com/p/ports2plan9/downloads/list, ports2plan9}.
310 They can be installed with @uref{http://9front.org/, 9front's} @code{pkg}
311 utility by setting @code{pkgpath} to
312 @code{http://ports2plan9.googlecode.com/files/}.
314 @item Missing/broken @code{head} and @code{printf} commands
316 Replacements adequate for building FFmpeg can be found in the
317 @code{compat/plan9} directory. Place these somewhere they will be
318 found by the shell. These are not full implementations of the
319 commands and are @emph{not} suitable for general use.
321 @item Missing C99 @code{stdint.h} and @code{inttypes.h}
323 Replacement headers are available from
324 @url{http://code.google.com/p/plan9front/issues/detail?id=152}.
326 @item Missing or non-standard library functions
328 Some functions in the C library are missing or incomplete. The
329 @code{@uref{http://ports2plan9.googlecode.com/files/gcc-apelibs-1207.tbz,
330 gcc-apelibs-1207}} package from
331 @uref{http://code.google.com/p/ports2plan9/downloads/list, ports2plan9}
332 includes an updated C library, but installing the full package gives
333 unusable executables. Instead, keep the files from @code{gccbin.tgz}
334 under @code{/386/lib/gnu}. From the @code{libc.a} archive in the
335 @code{gcc-apelibs-1207} package, extract the following object files and
336 turn them into a library:
339 @item @code{strerror.o}
340 @item @code{strtoll.o}
341 @item @code{snprintf.o}
342 @item @code{vsnprintf.o}
343 @item @code{vfprintf.o}
344 @item @code{_IO_getc.o}
345 @item @code{_IO_putc.o}
348 Use the @code{--extra-libs} option of @code{configure} to inform the
349 build system of this library.
351 @item FPU exceptions enabled by default
353 Unlike most other systems, Plan 9 enables FPU exceptions by default.
354 These must be disabled before calling any FFmpeg functions. While the
355 included tools will do this automatically, other users of the
356 libraries must do it themselves.