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authorRamiro Polla <ramiro.polla@gmail.com>2009-10-30 10:38:05 +0000
committerRamiro Polla <ramiro.polla@gmail.com>2009-10-30 10:38:05 +0000
commitb94ca2080343a0adb7e8430b48f502f2396f2b4e (patch)
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Document that using "make -r" might be faster than plain "make" in Windows.
Originally committed as revision 20418 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
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@@ -735,6 +735,12 @@ Notes:
@itemize
+@item Building natively using MSYS can be sped up by disabling implicit rules
+in the Makefile by calling @code{make -r} instead of plain @code{make}. This
+speed up is close to non-existent for normal one-off builds and is only
+noticeable when running make for a second time (for example in
+@code{make install}).
+
@item In order to compile FFplay, you must have the MinGW development library
of SDL. Get it from @url{http://www.libsdl.org}.
Edit the @file{bin/sdl-config} script so that it points to the correct prefix