After many days and nights – I have been through many battles. One battle involved my scratching of my head many times.

This battle is me trying to build FFmpeg with Cygwin. A new post and about computer stuff? If you just happen to stumble upon this mostly irrelevant post to the world, and you know absolutely nothing about programs and have no interest on these kind of things, you can opt out and stop reading right now, or better yet read some of my other post, as if there’s many worthwhile one, or just go outside and do some “real world” stuff instead of being in front of your computer lazily glazing your eyes with artificial radiation. What the feck is an artificial radiation anyway. If someone referred you to this page, like a search engine, then I’m fluttered.

Continuing with the topic. This is about making the latest source snapshot at least compile within Cygwin under Windows. If you didn’t know about Cygwin, it’s an excellent (at least for me) unix shell layer for Windows. This can entice you if you miss bashing (sorry) and you want to experience it under Windows or if you want to use practical UNIX tools under Windows. The problem with Cygwin (a system always have a problem; it’s the charm of engineering) is because it’s practically an emulation of the Unix shell (even though technically it’s not an emulation; it’s more of an application layer, like Wine on Linux), and you are guaranteed to encounter a slew of problems here and there, especially if it pertains to libraries and dependencies. You can think you can get away with the base installation of Cygwin and just compile those dependencies yourself, but you’ll just waste your time. Because of the low-levelness of these things, they are specially pre-built by the Cygwin team and are available over the repositories, and can be fetch by the setup program.

Jump to Install Windows Software - Download static FFmpeg r16537 for Windowswindows sitebinary into C: Program.

So we will use the pre-built version of these little ones. However, some are missing on the repositories; most likely due to licensing issues. So to get around this, we can try to build it ourselves and cross your finger, or find a third-party repository. We will go on the harder route, and we’ll build them ourselves coz we’re masochists Fortunately, there’s one available.

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We will come to that later. And you might have thought, what the ♥♥♥♥ is FFmpeg?

FFmpeg is the most powerful, open-source command-line media factory for all your media handling needs. You can use it to efficiently convert, repack, encode, re-encode, etc. Almost all various image, video, and audio formats. It is the back-end that powers most powerful, often free, encoders, decoders, and players out in the wild, like MPlayer. Later versions also includes a player and a server, ffplayer and ffserver, respectively, but mainly it is used for repackaging and encoding purposes.