Thanks for the background! Will investigate things further and come back to you in case I have any further questions or a result :-)
On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 Dan Dennedy: > The road map <https://www.mltframework.org/changes/todo/> is mostly wishes > and guesswork especially beyond MLT 7. The main focus of the remainder of > MLT 7 is completion of existing things. There is no technical reason for > the positioning of MSVC, and someone is free to get it working for MLT 7. > And it can be included in MLT 7 as long as it is not too ugly from a > maintenance perspective. I do not know the main difficulties or problems. > As far as pthreads is concerned you can still make it dependent upon that, > and there is a popular port of it to win32 threads that is also available > for use with CMake in vcpkg: https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/pull/4081 > It is up to your KDE/Windows goals whether to rely upon that or not and > also the depth of any policy. For example, the policy may only apply to KDE > code, and it may be difficult to convert every dependency in the hierarchy > to not use pthreads. > > > > On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 11:56 AM Julius Künzel < > > jk.kde...@smartlab.uber.space> wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > KDE recently added a Windows CI and we are interested to use it for > > Kdenlive, > > but the CI is based on MSVC and we can't use it at the moment due to MLT > > not > > being able to build with MSVC. I saw that MSVC support is on the roadmap > > for > > MLT 8, however I like to push it by trying to working on it. I wonder if > > beside priorities and time resources there are any technical reasons why > > MSVC > > support is on the roadmap for MLT 8 and not MLT 7? As far as I can see the > > main problem is the use of some POSIX functions mainly from pthread.h?? Do > > you > > already have plans how to replace them or make them build on MSVC? Or is > > the > > whole MSVC build just a general idea yet? > > Cheers, > > Julius Künzel > > Kdenlive Developer Team > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mlt-devel mailing list > > Mlt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mlt-devel _______________________________________________ Mlt-devel mailing list Mlt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mlt-devel
