We need to untar the downloaded files, rename the exported folder and re-tar so that the debian build is happy. Unfortunately, the paths are not correct and you need to change a few things. You need to go to the MinGW download site and download the 3.15 MinGW runtime and 3.13 Win32 API tar files. Next we want to update with the latest MinGW sources: This should download 3 files in your current directory:Īnd create the mingw32-runtime-3.13 folder. First, we need to download the 3.13 sources: So, I am going to show you how to upgrade it to 3.15 now. The latest and greatest mingw runtime debian package is 3.13. So what versions do we have installed you say? You end up with this error most likely:ĮRROR: MinGW runtime version must be >= 3.15. Unfortunately, it would be too easy, right. configure –target-os=mingw32 –cross-prefix=i386-mingw32msvc.

Since I already had setup a Debian as a VM running inside VMWare Workstation for compiling FFmpeg on Linux, I figured I’d go that way. You can set up MinGW on Windows or you can install it on a Linux box as a cross-compiler. To compile FFmpeg for Windows, the recommended way is to leverage MinGW. I figured others would have issues too so here’s a quick summary of my experiments. Compiling for Linux and Mac is pretty straightforward, however for Windows, it’s not that easy. Lately I have been trying to look into compiling ffmpeg for windows/mac/linux as a standalone executable.

Compile ffmpeg windows