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

Reimar Döffinger Reimar.Doeffinger
Fri Mar 7 14:53:19 CET 2008


On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 08:59:28AM -0300, Gonzalo Garramu?o wrote:
> M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> > If distributing the right version is causing you so much worry, why
> > don't you link statically instead?  That removes the entire problem
> > of versioning, and gives you better performance at no extra cost.
> > 
> 
> AFAIK, and correct me if I am wrong, that makes the code not be able to 
> be LGPL (which is the ffmpeg licensing I've chosen for this project).

Huh? AFAIK dynamic linking is just the lazy way to satisfy the LGPL
(which for me personally I replaced with "the user must be able to use a
modified version of the LGPL part"), e.g. shipping a load of .o files
and a Makefile that links them with libav*.lib to a binary should work
just as well...

Greetings,
Reimar D?ffinger




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