Add NASM To Toolchains?
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2017 1:22 am
In order to support AVX-512 SIMD, both x264 & x265 are swapping from YASM to NASM.
Great! Only problem is that x265 v2.7 will require a very recent minimum (v2.13), and Ubuntu 16.04 only has a v2.11 package, and 17.04 a v2.12 package.
Sure, any user could just download the v2.13.xx tarball and make it themselves, but are there any plans to add NASM to your toolchains (mingw-w64-build script) instead?
EDIT: Just noticed that, 6 years earlier, you'd implemented an "autotools" solution for the same sort of thing involving YASM: make/configure.py Line 1587 "## enable local yasm when yasm probe fails or version is too old".
Great! Only problem is that x265 v2.7 will require a very recent minimum (v2.13), and Ubuntu 16.04 only has a v2.11 package, and 17.04 a v2.12 package.
Sure, any user could just download the v2.13.xx tarball and make it themselves, but are there any plans to add NASM to your toolchains (mingw-w64-build script) instead?
EDIT: Just noticed that, 6 years earlier, you'd implemented an "autotools" solution for the same sort of thing involving YASM: make/configure.py Line 1587 "## enable local yasm when yasm probe fails or version is too old".