Libav 10 was released, so we can enable testing the stable Libav version
again.
FFmpeg 2.2 was also released, but since we still support 2.1.4, we stick
with the older version. This is better for testing.
I have no tolerance for this garbage anymore. There are tons of issues
with it (see e.g. previous commit), and there is no reason to use it
either. Use Libav git, or Libav 10 when it's released.
This also drops support for earlier FFmpeg release, which have exactly
the same issues as Libav 9. FFmpeg 2.1.4 is still supported, because
it's the latest release, and is reasonably recent. (Although this will
probably also be dropped as soon as FFmpeg 2.2 is released.)
Assumed version table (lots of nonsensical numbers):
FFmpeg 2.1.4 FFmpeg (n2.2-rc2) Libav (v10_beta2)
lavu 52.48.101 52.66.100 53.3.0
lavc 55.39.101 55.52.102 55.34.1
lavf 55.19.104 55.33.100 55.12.0
lsws 2.5.101 2.5.101 2.1.2
lavi 3.90.100 4.2.100 4.2.0
lswr 0.17.104 0.18.100 -
lavr 1.1.0 1.2.0 1.1.0
libpostproc and libavdevice are not interesting.
Following this commit, code needed just to support old Libav versions
will start to be removed.
This commit adds a new build system based on waf. configure and Makefile
are deprecated effective immediately and someday in the future they will be
removed (they are still available by running ./old-configure).
You can find how the choice for waf came to be in `DOCS/waf-buildsystem.rst`.
TL;DR: we couldn't get the same level of abstraction and customization with
other build systems we tried (CMake and autotools).
For guidance on how to build the software now, take a look at README.md
and the cross compilation guide.
CREDITS:
This is a squash of ~250 commits. Some of them are not by me, so here is the
deserved attribution:
- @wm4 contributed some Windows fixes, renamed configure to old-configure
and contributed to the bootstrap script. Also, GNU/Linux testing.
- @lachs0r contributed some Windows fixes and the bootstrap script.
- @Nikoli contributed a lot of testing and discovered many bugs.
- @CrimsonVoid contributed changes to the bootstrap script.
Travis-CI [1] is a continous integration cloud service. It is free for
open-source projects and tigthly integrated tiwh GitHub so there is really
no reason for us not use it. :)
For now we are going to do a total of 4 builds, mainly to test ffmpeg/libav
API breakage:
* ffmpeg-stable, libass-stable
* ffmpeg-git, libass-stable
* libav-stable, libass-stable
* libav-git, libass-stable
The compiler that is currently used is clang for two reasons:
* running 8 build targets would be quite wasteful and take a long time
* clang is less tested and used during development than gcc (especially on
linux)
Currently Travis doesn't support OS X environments alongside Linux ones [2].
When it will, we will add a fifth build target to test OS X compilation
breakage.
README was moved to markdown to add the little build status image. I ran some
tests with my GitHub fork and couldn't get images to show up using ReStructured
Text.
[1]: https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci
[2]: travis-ci/travis-ci#216
wm4
Stefano Pigozzi