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diff --git a/DOCS/compile-windows.md b/DOCS/compile-windows.md index fcf1be7e70..174a882316 100644 --- a/DOCS/compile-windows.md +++ b/DOCS/compile-windows.md @@ -168,8 +168,12 @@ Or, compile and install both libmpv and mpv: 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), +mpv/libmpv cannot be built with Visual Studio (Microsoft is too incompetent to +support C99/C11 properly and/or hates open source and Linux too much to +seriously do it). But you can build C++ programs in Visual Studio and link them +with a libmpv built with MinGW. + +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 |