[FFmpeg-devel] Create .lib static libraries on Windows instead of .a libraries (using MSVC compiler)

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 2:43 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffmpeg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2017-09-27 22:26 GMT+02:00 Hendrik Leppkes <h.leppkes at gmail.com>:
>> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 10:11 PM, Mateusz <mateuszb at poczta.onet.pl> wrote:
>>> W dniu 2017-09-27 o 17:40, Hendrik Leppkes pisze:
>>>> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 4:43 PM, Anonymous Maarten
>>>> <anonymous.maarten at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hey,
>>>>>
>>>>> Building the static ffmpeg library using vcpkg is currently broken [1][2].
>>>>> This is mainly due to the fact that the built static libraries are .a files
>>>>> with lib prefixes.
>>>>>
>>>>> The attached patch sets the lib prefix to "" and the lib suffix to ".lib".
>>>>>
>>>>> Tested by building ffmpeg using vcpkg and Visual Studio 2017 Community
>>>>> Edition on Windows 10.
>>>>> The resulted libraries link correctly to my application.
>>>>>
>>>> This would break the workflow for everyone that is currently working
>>>> with the current names, however.
>>>
>>> For gcc it breaks nothing (it still makes lib...a files), for msvc it is improvement.
>>> Is there any person happy with lib...a names for lib in msvc?
>>>
>>
>> It doesn't really matter if you're happy with it or not, if you change
>> it stuff will still break.
>
> Given we are currently changing API and ABI, this shouldn't
> be an issue.
> But maybe there is a reason why .a files have an advantage?
>

I think its actually somewhat beneficial to have different names for
dynamic and static libraries, its easy to differentiate them.

- Hendrik