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authorMartin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>2011-03-22 15:07:16 +0200
committerLuca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>2011-03-23 01:23:21 +0100
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Document usage of import libraries created by dlltool
Signed-off-by: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>
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@@ -1005,6 +1005,12 @@ libavutil/pixdesc.h you should have:
extern __declspec(dllimport) const AVPixFmtDescriptor av_pix_fmt_descriptors[];
@end example
+Note that using import libraries created by dlltool requires
+the linker optimization option to be set to
+"References: Keep Unreferenced Data (/OPT:NOREF)", otherwise
+the resulting binaries will fail during runtime. This isn't
+required when using import libraries generated by lib.exe.
+
@subsection Cross compilation for Windows with Linux
You must use the MinGW cross compilation tools available at