README - 20 July 2020
Welcome to the WebM VP8/VP9 Codec SDK!
COMPILING THE APPLICATIONS/LIBRARIES:
The build system used is similar to autotools. Building generally consists of
"configuring" with your desired build options, then using GNU make to build
the application.
1. Prerequisites
* All x86 targets require the Yasm[1] assembler be installed[2].
* All Windows builds require that Cygwin[3] be installed.
* Building the documentation requires Doxygen[4]. If you do not
have this package, the install-docs option will be disabled.
* Downloading the data for the unit tests requires curl[5] and sha1sum.
sha1sum is provided via the GNU coreutils, installed by default on
many *nix platforms, as well as MinGW and Cygwin. If coreutils is not
available, a compatible version of sha1sum can be built from
source[6]. These requirements are optional if not running the unit
tests.
[1]: http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm
[2]: For Visual Studio the base yasm binary (not vsyasm) should be in the
PATH for Visual Studio. For VS2017 it is sufficient to rename
yasm--.exe to yasm.exe and place it in:
Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2017//Common7/Tool