Add FreeBSD subsection with compilation instructions.

Originally committed as revision 22686 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
15 years ago · 54dab567ba
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--- a/doc/general.texi
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@ -720,6 +720,14 @@ performance on systems without hardware floating point support).
 BSD make will not build FFmpeg, you need to install and use GNU Make
 (@file{gmake}).

+@subsection FreeBSD
+
+FreeBSD will not compile out-of-the-box due to broken system headers.
+Passing @code{--extra-cflags=-D__BSD_VISIBLE} to configure will work
+around the problem. This may have unexpected sideeffects, so use it at
+your own risk. If you care about FreeBSD, please make an attempt at
+getting the system headers fixed.
+
@section Windows

 To get help and instructions for building FFmpeg under Windows, check out