On 23.01.2016 17:16, Hendrik Leppkes wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 4:27 PM, Andreas Cadhalpun > <andreas.cadhal...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> On 23.01.2016 15:07, Hendrik Leppkes wrote: >>> On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Andreas Cadhalpun >>> <andreas.cadhal...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>>> On 23.01.2016 14:48, Hendrik Leppkes wrote: >>>>> Unfortunately, cygpath is not guaranteed to be available, and in fact >>>>> is not on some working build setups today (ie. msys1 environments with >>>>> msvc) >>>> >>>> Is there another way to get the Windows path on those environments? >>>> >>> >>> Not that I am aware. >> >> Hmm, sed should be available everywhere. >> >> Does the attached patch fix the MSVC builds? >> > > Unfortunately these assumptions are also not valid. On cygwin for > example, a path would be /cygdrive/C/path/to/folder
How many more strange path conventions are there? I think all mentioned so far could be supported by using cygpath, if available, and sed otherwise. > Dealing with absolute paths in the unix/windows mixture is just not > going to be easy, which is why we were careful to avoid them at all > before. Not really. Out-of-tree builds used absolute path before, which is exactly the problem my initial patch fixed. Best regards, Andreas _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
