voukoder-ffmpeg/README.md

voukoder-ffmpeg-buildscript

Builds static libraries of ffmeg and external libraries (x264 8bit, x265 8,10 and 12bit) to be used in the voukoder project.

Install msys2

• Get the 64bit version of msys2 from msys2.org
• Install it

Start msys2

• Open a command prompt
• Run "vcvarsall.bat amd64" in "c:\program files (x86)\microsoft visual studio\2017\community\VC\Auxiliary\Build"
• Run msys2 with "msys2_shell.cmd -mingw64 -full-path"

Install development tools

• Install CMakeGui in Windows to have the VisualStudio templates ready
• Install "pacman -S base-devel binutils git make pkg-config subversion zip" in msys2
• Install nasm to /usr/bin/nasm.exe
• Install cmake gui
• Add cmake path to path variable

Starting the build

• Have the build.sh file at i.e. "/home/daniel/ffmpeg/build.sh"
• Start the build by either "./build.sh debug" or "./build.sh release"