[Ffmpeg-devel] Dll's with MinGW

[Matt Schuckmann]

I ran into this a couple of weeks ago and I got the attached patch from
Diego Biurrun and it solved the problem by moving the .51 and .49 and .50 to
before the .lib and .dll. I think the problem is MS link doesn't know how to
deal with files that are .51 etc. 

Perhaps this patch never got applied to the CVS tree. 

Matt S. 

-----Original Message-----
From: ffmpeg-devel-bounces at mplayerhq.hu
[mailto:ffmpeg-devel-bounces at mplayerhq.hu] On Behalf Of lorenzk at gmx.net
Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 2:57 PM
To: ffmpeg-devel at mplayerhq.hu
Subject: [Ffmpeg-devel] Dll's with MinGW

Hello,

after searching the archives, I found other people's questions on avformat,
avcodec and avutil libraries under Windows/MinGW.

I did successfully ffmpeg and the libs, but I get these files:
avcodec.dll
avcodec.dll.51
avcodec.dll.lib
avformat.dll
avformat.dll.50
avformat.dll.lib
avutil.dll
avutil.dll.49
avutil.dll.lib

The .51, .50, .49 files are binary identical to the .dll files.

avcodec.dll references (uses) avutil.dll.49.
avformat.dll references (uses) avutil.dll.49 and avcodec.dll.51.

Is this (using the .51, .50, .49 files) by intention?

When I look inside the lib files (with dumpbin.exe), I can see that there
are no public symbols exported, besides the standard ones:
__IMPORT_DESCRIPTOR_avcodec.dll (to me it looks like the ".dll" is wrong,
because we then need a DLL avcodec.dll.dll)
__NULL_IMPORT_DESCRIPTOR
?avcodec.dll_NULL_THUNK_DATA (again ".dll" that shouldn't be here)

So it is no wonder that the libs cannot be used to automatically link
against the DLLs.

Please could somebody with insight shed a little light on this.

Cheers
Lorenz

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