[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Cygwin vhook, always static avformat

[Víctor Paesa]

Hi,

> > >Why do you want to install the shared libs in $(bindir)?
> > It's the Cygwin way, DLLs are together with EXEs in the same directory, 
>and
> > import libraries for DLLs  are in $(libdir).
>
>But is this necessary?  Will it work if the DLLs are in $(libdir)
>anyway?
LD_CONFIG_PATH, LD_RUN PATH are not honored, unfortunately DLLs use the same 
search path as executables, so to use $(libdir) I would need to set:

export PATH="$PATH:$libdir"

I am not sure if -rpath works, I will check.


> > >> b) Always compile avformat statically under Cygwin
> > >>
> > 
> >http://usuarios.arsystel.com/wzrlpy/ffmpeg/ffmpeg.cygwin.static_avformat.1.patch
> > >
> > >I don't see how this has any advantage over just using --enable-static.
> > >Patch rejected unless you come up with a really good explanation.
> > By this second patch the vhooks size tops at about 200KB, if I use
> > --enable-static, then vhooks increase to about 3MB.
>
>Well, you are mixing shared and static libs.  That's an unacceptable
>hack or at least it is not acceptable here.  Fix Cygwin instead.
OK, I will wait for Cygwin to be fixed (fixing it by myself involves more 
knowledge that I have).

Regards,
V?ctor