Hello All, Let me first say thank you in advance for the help on this. I have been trying to compile a static install of ffmpeg support libx264 for several months now on a RHEL cluster we have and I have tried just about EVERY help forum suggestion I come across but still no luck. The script I have been using to date is copied below. Mostly it just clears everything out and then re-extracts and attempts to build everything necessary to function. I don't know how I can be more explicit for where I am putting the x264 library and I can see from the config.out that it knows where libx264.a is at but it always dies and says: collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status ERROR: libx264 not found Here is the script I have been using so far. See anything that stands out that I have wrong with this? #!/bin/bash export FFMPEGDIR=/place_where_it_is/ffmpeg_installation rm -rf $FFMPEGDIR/ffmpeg_sources/yasm rm -rf $FFMPEGDIR/ffmpeg_sources/nasm-2.13.01 rm -rf $FFMPEGDIR/ffmpeg_sources/x264 rm -rf $FFMPEGDIR/ffmpeg_sources/ffmpeg rm -rf $FFMPEGDIR/ffmpeg_build rm -rf $FFMPEGDIR/ffmpeg_related_bin cd $FFMPEGDIR/ffmpeg_sources tar -xvf nasm-2.13.01.tar.xz tar -xvf yasm.tar.gz tar -xvf x264.tar.gz tar -xvf ffmpeg.tar.gz cd $FFMPEGDIR/ffmpeg_sources/yasm autoreconf -fiv ./configure --prefix="$FFMPEGDIR/ffmpeg_build" --bindir="$FFMPEGDIR/ffmpeg_related_bin" make make install make distclean cd $FFMPEGDIR/ffmpeg_sources/nasm-2.13.01 make clean ./configure --prefix="$FFMPEGDIR/ffmpeg_build" --bindir="$FFMPEGDIR/ffmpeg_related_bin" make make install export PATH="$FFMPEGDIR/ffmpeg_related_bin:$PATH" cd $FFMPEGDIR/ffmpeg_sources/x264 make clean ./configure --prefix="$FFMPEGDIR/ffmpeg_build" --bindir="$FFMPEGDIR/ffmpeg_related_bin" --enable-static --disable-opencl make make install ldconfig cd $FFMPEGDIR/ffmpeg_sources/ffmpeg export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$FFMPEGDIR/ffmpeg_build/lib/pkgconfig" export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$FFMPEGDIR/ffmpeg_build/lib:$FFMPEGDIR/ffmpeg_build/include:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" make clean ./configure --prefix="$FFMPEGDIR/ffmpeg_build" --pkg-config-flags="--static" --enable-static --extra-cflags="-I$FFMPEGDIR/ffmpeg_build/include" --extra-ldflags="-L$FFMPEGDIR/ffmpeg_build/lib" --extra-ldexeflags="-static" --bindir="$FFMPEGDIR/ffmpeg_related_bin" --enable-gpl --enable-libx264 make make install make distclean Thank you again for helping with this! David