[PATCH][Ffmpeg-devel] Compilation Issue

[Michel Bardiaux]

Alexander Strasser wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Michel Bardiaux wrote:
> 
>>Jan-Willem Mulder wrote:
>>
>>Please dont top post.
>>
>>
>>>only problem I have is that --enable-shared does not work as expected
>>>anymore when building with mingw.
>>>before libavutil was added ffmpeg.exe for example was about 150k,
>>>libavformat 400k and libavcodec 2500k. After libavutil was added (and
>>>current cvs) ffmpeg.exe results in 3200k, libavutil 35k, libavcodec 2500k,
>>>libavformat 3000k. It seems that it is all staticly linked.
>>>darkie.
> 
> 
>   AFAIK there were some problems even before I added libavutil.
>  
> 
>>Indeed:
>>
>>nm -Bo libavformat/avformat.dll | fgrep ' U '
>>
>>returns empty. Definitely broken.
>>
>>I was able to work around it by changing some lines in the Makefiles, 
>>see attached patch. Of course this is *only* for DLLs. How to write 
>>things exactly so that the shared or static libs are used for the links 
>>requires more familiarity with the Makefiles than I have. (Someone will 
>>maybe point out that the autotools would not have made that mistake...)
> 
> 
>   I tried to work out a solution today. The attached patch is what
> I have so far, it may not be the best solution but i think it is 
> better than before. Please test (on all platforms).
> 
> [...]
> 
>   Alex (beastd)
> 
Sorry, the patch is rejected when applied to CVS as of 2005-09-26 
10:13GMT. Please redo the diff against a current CVS. TIA.

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