doc/faq: Change the Visual Studio entry to reflect current status

Signed-off-by: Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis@gmail.com>
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Derek Buitenhuis 12 years ago
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@section Is Microsoft Visual C++ supported?
No. Microsoft Visual C++ is not compliant to the C99 standard and does
not - among other things - support the inline assembly used in Libav.
If you wish to use MSVC++ for your
project then you can link the MSVC++ code with libav* as long as
you compile the latter with a working C compiler. For more information, see
the @emph{Microsoft Visual C++ compatibility} section in the Libav
documentation.
There have been efforts to make Libav compatible with MSVC++ in the
past. However, they have all been rejected as too intrusive, especially
since MinGW does the job adequately. None of the core developers
work with MSVC++ and thus this item is low priority. Should you find
the silver bullet that solves this problem, feel free to shoot it at us.
We strongly recommend you to move over from MSVC++ to MinGW tools.
@section Can I use Libav under Windows?
Yes, but the Cygwin or MinGW tools @emph{must} be used to compile Libav.
Read the @emph{Windows} section in the Libav documentation to find more
information.
Yes. Please see the @uref{platform.html, Microsoft Visual C++}
section in the Libav documentation.
@section Can you add automake, libtool or autoconf support?

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