[FFmpeg-user] Link against non-specific .so

[Andreas Sommer]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Andreas Sommer
<andreas.sommer87 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Andreas Sommer
> <andreas.sommer87 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > Am 24.01.2013 18:09, schrieb Andreas Sommer:
>> >> When I compile the FFmpeg libraries for Android, I get .so files that
>> >> reference the others with their specific version. For example,
>> >> libswscale.so contains a reference to libavutil.so.52.
>> >>
>> >> How can I change this to reference "libavutil.so" without the suffix?
>> >
>> > why would you want this?
>> >
>> > if the .so number is higher there was a ABI change
>> > so anything linking dynamically would be broken and has to be recompiled
>> >
>> > without the number all you get is randomly crahsing other
>> > applications instead a clear error
>>
>> Makes sense, then I will just copy the lib*.so.XY files directly so that
>> the references are correct.
>>
>> But out of curiosity, is there a way to link to the non-specific .so
>> files? Else they don't need to exist, right? :P
>
> When I try to run an Android app with the lib*.so.XY files in /libs,
> System.loadLibrary("swscale") crashes and says it cannot find
> libavutil.so.52 even though that file is in /libs. I previously had
> precompiled (but unfortunately outdated) FFmpeg libraries which
> reference each other as lib*.so (without the version). Any way to do
> that?

Okay, found a "solution", see http://stackoverflow.com/q/14521588/245706