[FFmpeg-devel] Fix mingw name of .lib files

[Diego Biurrun]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 01:01:02AM -0300, Gonzalo Garramu?o wrote:
> M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> > 
> > If memory serves, attempting to run a Windows application with dlls
> > missing, will result in a message telling the user exactly which dlls
> > are required.  In the case libavcodec, that would be the versioned
> > name.
> 
> *IF* you link against the versioned name (which is what I'm *trying* to 
> do easily) but not what you are proposing by having the .lib name being 
> unversioned.
> 
> The whole issue is that I'm trying to automate the release and I can't 
> because for linking with the microsoft compiler/mingw, you need to find 
> the lib file but for release you need to ship the correct DLL.  As the 
> lib name has no useful version, how am I to ship the right DLL?  Things 
> will only get worse if, as you say, I need to support multiple versions. 
>   You are assuming versions just increase and you never have to support 
> older versions.  Every time I compile ffmpeg, the avcodec.lib gets 
> overwritten.  In a couple of months, I would then have no idea which 
> version it belongs to anymore.

You should really look into static linking and/or BUILDSUF.

Diego