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author | wm4 <wm4@nowhere> | 2016-07-14 22:39:53 +0200 |
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committer | wm4 <wm4@nowhere> | 2016-07-14 22:40:10 +0200 |
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DOCS/compile-windows.md: MSVC DLL usage instructions
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diff --git a/DOCS/compile-windows.md b/DOCS/compile-windows.md index 364a057183..c043671c9f 100644 --- a/DOCS/compile-windows.md +++ b/DOCS/compile-windows.md @@ -173,6 +173,24 @@ sed -i 's_/mingw64/bin_/mingw64/lib_' /mingw64/lib/pkgconfig/mpv.pc rmdir /mingw64/bin/pkgconfig ``` +Linking libmpv with MSVC programs +--------------------------------- + +You can build C++ programs in Visual Studio and link them with libmpv. To do +this, you need a Visual Studio which supports ``stdint.h`` (recent ones do), +and you need to create a import library for the mpv DLL: + +```bash +lib /def:mpv.def /name:mpv-1.dll /out:mpv.lib /MACHINE:X64 +``` + +The string in the ``/name:`` parameter must match the filename of the DLL (this +is simply the filename the MSVC linker will use). The ``mpv.def`` can be +retrieved from the mpv build directory, or can be produced by MingGW's +gendef.exe helper from the mpv DLL. + +Static linking is not possible. + Running mpv ----------- |