Yeah and those people don't matter. Anyways, this mailing list is a disaster. 


-------- Original Message --------
From: Timo Rothenpieler via ffmpeg-devel <[email protected]>
Sent: January 24, 2026 11:06:28 AM EST
To: [email protected]
Cc: Timo Rothenpieler <[email protected]>
Subject: [FFmpeg-devel] Re: Consider using CMake.

On 24.01.2026 03:57, swurl via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> "MSVC works fine! Just go to MSYS2 first"
> 
> That isn't "working", that's a horrible workaround. Not to mention this is a 
> nightmare to script or run in a CI environment.
> 
> Again, *I have tried this and it isn't good.* It's very prone to breaking and 
> pretty much impossible to make any meaningful changes. Not to mention it 
> almost never works

It works perfectly fine for me.

>  > Porting everything to any other build system without causing an endless 
> slew of regressions and dropping support for a ton of targets is virtually 
> impossible.
> 
> Call me crazy but I don't think FFmpeg needs to support somebody's 2003 
> toaster running a 200 MHz POWER4. Everything else is trivial to keep support 
> for, because *CMake literally runs everywhere.* See https:// 
> cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/variable/CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME.html.

Just because you don't care about it doesn't mean other people also don't.

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