[x264-devel] Win32 large-address-aware?

[Jeppe Øland]

> > Adding the option LargeAddressAware="2" to the vcproj linker section
> > would all but eliminate the problem for essentially all users.
>
> Perhaps you haven't thought your cunning plan all the way through, but
> x264 does not support any variants of the Microsoft VC series because
> said compilers do not support the language that x264 is written in
> (C99).  Additionally, practically all GUIs use an x264 build that is
> compiled with gcc.

As you may be able to figure out, I have not actually compiled the code myself.
I found a problem with every executeable out there, and wrote about it
here so that hopefully somebody would fix it.
It seems like that it not likely to happen :-(

Since there are vcproj files in the repository, I assumed that
somebody was compiling with VC - butI guess they are there for some
other reason?

A quick google for "gcc largeaddressaware" shows that there is an
option for GCC/LD to do the same. --large-address-aware. (Since I have
never used GCC for Windows development, I am not sure if there are any
issues or if it's even the right thing).

Regards,
-Jeppe