diff --git a/doc/general.texi b/doc/general.texi index 53af7caed1..3956601859 100644 --- a/doc/general.texi +++ b/doc/general.texi @@ -720,6 +720,14 @@ performance on systems without hardware floating point support). BSD make will not build FFmpeg, you need to install and use GNU Make (@file{gmake}). +@subsection FreeBSD + +FreeBSD will not compile out-of-the-box due to broken system headers. +Passing @code{--extra-cflags=-D__BSD_VISIBLE} to configure will work +around the problem. This may have unexpected sideeffects, so use it at +your own risk. If you care about FreeBSD, please make an attempt at +getting the system headers fixed. + @section Windows To get help and instructions for building FFmpeg under Windows, check out