[XviD-devel] VFW cygwin support ?
peter ross
xvid-devel@xvid.org
Sat, 21 Sep 2002 12:15:02 +1000
>So i did some work on them, and i have a working patch for vfw. I know
>there are two branches in vfw module (dev-api-3 and head). Which one
>do i commit to ?
commit your patch to whatever tree the patch works with.
>And i have another question (probably stupid, but this seems natural to a
>unix guy) :
>
> - why are you building a static lib in xvidcore
> - then build a vfw that exports core symbols ?
>
>For me it would be more natural to have something like that :
> - Build a dll libxvidcore.dll that exports xvid API (xvid_init,
> xvid_encore, xvid_decore)
> - Build the vfw driver on top of the libxvidcore.dll
> - Vfw driver exports usual vfw symbols (Configure, DriverEntry iirc)
>
>For me it seems more logical that xvidcore exports its symbols and vfw
>driver exports its symbols. I think it's not logical to build a vfw
>driver to have access to xvidcore. Comments are welcome.
this is prehistoric stuff from the days of opendivx. eg.
libdecore.lib + libencore.lib + divx4windows.obj => opendivx.dll
iam in favour of a sepereate libxvidcore.dll.
-- pete
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