[FFmpeg-user] pkg-config --static ?

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Roger Pack <rogerdpack2 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I noticed that "by default" when I compile fontconfig as a static
> library, then enable it in ffmpeg with --enable-fontconfig,

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> it is running pkg-config like this:
> 
> $ pkgconfig pkg-config --libs fontconfig
> 
> which outputs:
> 
> -L/home/rogerdpack/..../i686-w64-mingw32/lib -lfontconfig
> 
> after consulting the fontconfig people, they suggest 
> this work around:
> $ pkg-config --static --libs fontconfig

It is absolutely possible that I completely misunderstand 
how pkg-config is supposed to work, but imo 
pkg-config --libs should allow you to link to the library 
no matter how you configured it (or in other words: the 
pkg-config file of fontconfig has to look differently 
depending on how you configured fontconfig).

Carl Eugen