[x264-devel] x264 on MSVC

[Steven Walters]

"did not work" and "does not work" are the vaguest errors in
existence, learn how to report issues.

Anyway, there are a few ways to use x264 in conjunction with MSVC:
1) building x264 dlls with MinGW and having MSVC link against these.
2) building x264 with Windows Intel Compiler (where Intel Compiler's
generated code is MSVC compatible and can be directly linked against
in MSVC)
3) building x264 static library with MinGW and having MSVC link
against this (x86 only)
4) Direct264

For 1)
As indicated in the official webpage, there is a known issue with the
import libraries that MinGW creates.
You needed to create your own import libraries with MSVC and use these
to link against the MinGW built dll.
How did you generate the export definition (.def) file to use with
MSVC's lib tool to generate a .lib?

For 2)
There are basic instructions on how to build x264 with Intel's Compiler...

For 3)
This route is generally the least taken, due to the fact you will need
to have a decent number of MinGW libraries linked against in MSVC to
get it to actually link, and it primarily only works for x86.
IMO This is generally too much to deal with for someone unexperienced
in doing it, so i will not continue to describe it.

For 4)
Direct264 is an independent port of x264, the primary x264 developers
do not support it in any fashion, you will need to go to the Direct264
developer(s) about issues with it.


On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Sambhav <isambhav at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I need to integrate x264 into an existing system in MSVC.
> I downloaded the package from http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html.
> I was able to build x264 a library from mingw, but unable to integrate into
> my system in MSVC.
> I tried this  http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSVC_and_MinGW_DLLs for using mingw
> dll in MSVC but did not work.
> I came across win32 x264 package
> at https://direct264.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/direct264/x264/ which has
> VS2008/VS2010 build support. But libraries built with this does not work on
> MSVC.
> Is there any build setup for MSVC or how to use mingw built library in
> MSVC.
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Sambhav
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