MinGW/FFmpeg installation guide In order to compile FFmpeg on
Windows, you need to install the MinGW environment and a few
tools which are strictly required. The following sections give
some indications for installing some of the required components.
Note that the only strict requirements for compiling a plain
vanilla version of FFmpeg (no external libraries) is MinGW
(compilation environment) and git required for downloading and
updating the source code. Also note that sometimes it is easier
to cross compile, see CrossCompilingForWindows, which also may
contain some hints/clues for compiling the various dependencies
you'd need using mingw, too. You basically have two options for
a compiler: mingw "mainline" or mingw-w64. Both offer working
gcc's for windows. The latter tends to be slightly more up to
date than the former, and offers a few more libraries, like
DirectShow access. The instructions here are basically for the
former, but the two are interchangeable. and look for the
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