[FFmpeg-devel] [Patch] fix mingw/faac linking

[Andrew Voznytsa]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ffmpeg-devel-bounces at mplayerhq.hu [mailto:ffmpeg-devel-
> bounces at mplayerhq.hu] On Behalf Of Ramiro Polla
> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 12:23 AM
> To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches
> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [Patch] fix mingw/faac linking
> 
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Ramiro Polla <ramiro.polla at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Andrew Voznytsa
> > <andrew.voznytsa at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:38 PM, M?ns Rullg?rd <mans at mansr.com>
> wrote:
> [...]
> > Besides, I never got any problem with libfaac failing to link. What
> > version are you using? Is it compiled with mingw as well?
> 
> Hmm... Apparently it was never trivial to install libfaac on MinGW.
> 
> The FFmpeg Windows Help website [0] was down for some time last month,
> but now it's up again, and thanks to 45tripp the wiki is also back up.
> 
> These are the steps I wrote some (long) time ago:
> 
> tar zxfv faac-1.26.tar.gz
> patch -p0 < faac-1.26.patch
> cd faac
> sh bootstrap
> ./configure --prefix=/mingw --enable-static --disable-shared make
> LDFLAGS="-no-undefined"
> make install
> 
> You need MSYS DTK for that (and possibly you have to update autotools
> as well) because you must re-run bootstrap after patching. The patch is
> attached here in case the website goes down again at some later point
> in time.
> 

Your patch disables some faac pieces unrelated to libfaac.[a,so] so it does
not resolve stdcall/cdecl problem.

Thanks,
Andrew