[FFmpeg-devel] ERROR: avisynth/avisynth_c.h not found

[Ricardo Constantino]

On Mon, 6 Apr 2020 at 23:42, Helmut K. C. Tessarek <tessarek at evermeet.cx>
wrote:

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> On 2020-04-05 20:02, Marton Balint wrote:
> > The headers got removed because the ffmpeg source tree is no place for
> > third party library headers.
>
> I get that and it makes sense.
>
> > Yes, avisynth was an exception, not anymore.
>
> I also get that, but the commit message should have mentioned that.
>
> > Actually with the change it got documented that you need to install the
> > headers.
> >
> > https://www.ffmpeg.org/general.html#AviSynth
>
> Thanks for the info. Yet again, I would have expected something in the
> commit message.
> I ususally don't care, but this commit broke the build process.
>
> > Sometimes you have to follow up on your compile scripts to be able to
> > build the newest ffmpeg. Considering that how easy avisynth upstream made
> > it to install the headers, I am sure this is only a small nuisance.
>
> I can't tell you how often I had to change the script to compile ffmpeg.
>
> It's not a problem, but when I run into a compile issue, I check what the
> problem was. "header missing" pointed me to commit 0c75acb4ce
> (compat/avisynth: remove avisynth headers), yet there was nothing in the
> commit message.
>

It was eventually documented, in a later commit:
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commitdiff;h=7b0f7a7f3b6bf09c076c23d0701bf42a2c997ca2;hp=bef3c14dd1a9a38d996497da7ea416aa372283bf


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