[Libav-user] Compile with g++

[Michael Chisholm]

On 10/8/2013 2:12 PM, James Board wrote:
>> "How difficult would it be to compile the examples in the doc/examples
>> directory with a C++ compiler?"
>>
>> Those are C programs, so just use a C compiler for them.  That's all I
>> meant.
>
> Okay, I understand.  Yes they are just C programs, so I can compile with
> the C compiler.  But my C++ programs with libav subroutine calls won't
> compile and the error messages I receive are the same as when I try to compile
> the doc/examples with C++.  So, rather then posting my C++ code, it's easier
> to debug the problems by merely trying to compile the doc/examples with the
> C++ compiler
>
>> So I just added it myself, around my C includes:
>>
>> extern "C" {
>> #include "libavformat/avformat.h"
>> etc...
>> }
>
> I tried exactly that with the demuxing.c example.  When I try to compile
> it with the C++ compiler, I get errors.  When I compile with the C compiler,
> no errors.  What do I need to do to get demuxing.c to compile with the C++
> compiler in Linux?
>

You didn't describe the error messages, but I gave it a shot with 
mingw32 4.8.1, and now I see error messages as well.  E.g.

demuxing.c: In function 'int main(int, char**)':
demuxing.c:261:66: error: invalid conversion from 'void*' to 'uint8_t** 
{aka unsigned char**}' [-fpermissive]
          audio_dst_data = av_mallocz(sizeof(uint8_t *) * nb_planes);
                                                                   ^
Is that the kind of error you are seeing (this is from ffmpeg 2.0.1)?  I 
am admittedly using an older version of libav (0.8.6), not the latest 
ffmpeg, and that works fine with C++ compilers.  I hadn't realized it, 
but it seems things have changed... which is good for me to know.  I 
don't know of an easy fix for this :(

Andy