Building ffmpeg for Windows with MSYS and MinGW

Question

I am trying to build ffmpeg for windows (Xp - SP2) as given here.

./configure -–extra-cflags=”-mno-cygwin -mms-bitfields” -–extra-ldflags=”-Wl, -add-stdcall-alias” -–enable-memalign-hack -–enable-shared -–disable-static -–target-os=mingw32

The above command is placed in a myconfig file as instructed and when i run ./myconfig, the following error is displayed:

Broken Shell detected. Trying alternatives.
Trying Shell bash
Unknown option "-–extra-cflags=-mno-cygwin".

As suggested in the link i tried various options but still i was not able to succeed.

My environment is Win XP with:

MinGW-5.1.6,
bash-2.05b-MSYS,
MSYS-1.0.10,
ffmpeg-0.5

EDIT:

After certain changes in the above command by referring howto i was able to successfully run the make command and i found the following DLL's in their respective directory

ffmpeg\libavcodec\avcodec-51.dll
ffmpeg\libavformat\avformat-51.dll
ffmpeg\libavutil\avutil-49.dll

But i didn't see any ffmpeg\ffmpeg.exe file :(

What could have gone wrong?

I've flagged this as belonging on Stack Overflow as it's a programming issue. Head on over and create & associate your accounts so you'll have ownership if it moves. — ChrisF, Oct 24 '09 at 11:52
@Sri - that's all right then ;) I should have checked your profile - sorry. — ChrisF, Oct 24 '09 at 14:09
what are the last few lines after running "make clean && make"? — rogerdpack, Jan 21 '14 at 17:39

Zombo · Answer 1 · 2013-06-05T06:56:58.350

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Possibly off topic, but I wrote a script for Cygwin to do this.

edited Jun 05 '13 at 06:56

answered Apr 14 '12 at 22:00

Zombo

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Thanks! I downloaded the latest version from there but to use libfdk_aac they as to configure ffmpeg, I tried c:\FFMPEG\bin>ffmpeg --enable-libfdk_aac --enable-nonfree but it throws "Unrecognized option '-enable-libfdk_aac'. Error splitting the argument list: Option not found" . Thoughts? – Gopi Jun 05 '13 at 09:12
So, I cannot directly add a codec to existing FFMPEG exe? I am sorry I don't get your point here on how to use your script :( – Gopi Jun 06 '13 at 10:24

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 18 '09 at 14:28

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Ramiro's FFmpeg for Windows site gives much better step by step instructions, and has a community forum that you can ask questions on if the Wiki doesn't answer your question already.

answered Nov 18 '09 at 14:28

Art Clarke

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The link is broken. Do you have working solution for 64 bit windows? – kheya Jul 22 '13 at 23:03
for cross compiling (for 64-bit windows) see https://github.com/rdp/ffmpeg-windows-build-helpers also here is a forum for windows: http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/forum/ which may be helpful – rogerdpack Jan 21 '14 at 17:38

Meir Gerenstadt · Answer 3 · 2013-03-05T11:10:24.493

Finally I succeeded to build ffmpeg on windows with this blog http://www.finalmediaplayer.com/source.html

You may also want to add lame and x264 to your build.

Extract the tar to /ffmpeg/libraries
./configure --prefix=/ffmpeg/olibs --enable-static --disable-shared
make
make install

Additionals libraries:

Reconfigure your ffmpeg again with the options: --enable-libx264 --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libfaac --enable-libfdk-aac

Building ffmpeg for Windows with MSYS and MinGW

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