[x265] Building on Cygwin

[Deepthi Nandakumar]

Your cygwin patch can be pushed, but the x265 team will not document/test
Cygwin support and functionality. We don't want to push you to a new build
environment for this fairly trivial change.

Would you like to send a CLA, or we'll just commit it locally?

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Phil Rosenberg <p.d.rosenberg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I wasn't aware of that ability of msys now.
>
> Even so, for the sake of one lib of code is it not worth doing it for
> those who prefer Cygwin?
>
> I obviously can't force you to include it though.
>
> Phil
> ------------------------------
> From: Stephen Hutchinson <qyot27 at gmail.com>
> Sent: ‎05/‎11/‎2015 03:46
> To: Development for x265 <x265-devel at videolan.org>
> Subject: Re: [x265] Building on Cygwin
>
> On 11/4/2015 7:29 PM, Phil Rosenberg wrote:
> > The advantage of Cygwin when building open source code is having
> > access to a package manager and Linux-like environment. So in my case
> > when building ffmpeg with a number of additional dependencies I could
> > install most dependencies with the package manager and easily build
> > the rest then build ffmpeg using standard the standard ./configure,
> > make, make install. This was an order of magnitude easier than trying
> > to build via visual studio (which I ordinarily prefer) and
> > significantly easier than having to build all the dependancies (and
> > their dependancies...) with MinGW.
> The package management argument doesn't hold up anymore,
> considering the advent of msys2 a couple years ago.  Even uses
> a Windows port of Arch Linux's pacman to do it.
>
> And as far as I'm aware, FFmpeg hasn't added *.vcxproj or *.sln
> files, so compiling it with Visual Studio still requires entering
> an MSys(2) environment (maybe just entering the Bourne shell)
> from the VS Command Prompt and then using --toolchain=msvc
> during ./configure.  So even at that, msys2 should have you
> covered on the deps front.
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Deepthi Nandakumar
Engineering Manager, x265
Multicoreware, Inc
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