[Ffmpeg-devel] Re: How to compile ffmpeg with faac support on Windows?

[Lars Blumberg]

> I think you should post much more details, so we can try and reproduce 
> your situation. When you say FAAC compiles OK, you should tell us where 
> you got the tarball, where you exploded it, what configure command, in 
> what directory you run make, in what environment (that you did, msys; but 
> what does 'which make' report? What is the value of $PATH?).

1. I downloaded the FAAC tarball from
http://www.audiocoding.com/modules/mydownloads/visit.php?cid=3&lid=20
(FAAC CVS snapshot 18-10-2004)

2. Using MSVC7 I compiled the FAAC project.
No I have some obj-files and libfaac.lib in "D:\faac\libfaac\Release" 
directory.

3. Then I was running the "make install" command using MingGW/MSys. Since I 
didn't know which makefile I had to use, I tried all makefiles. I have the 
following makefiles in my faac directory:
- D:\faac\project\mingw32\Makefile
- D:\faac\libfaac\Makefile.am
- D:\faac

All calls "make install" in these directories tell me make:
"*** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop."

I had a look at the files and in fact there are no "install"-rules.

4. Then I compiled the FFMPEG project using the option --enable-faac.
(I am using the current ffmpeg cvs version)

I wrote a script for compiling:

-----------
#!/bin/sh

make clean
rm config.h
rm config.mak

CONFIGURE_PARAMS="--enable-memalign-hack --enable-mingw32 --extra-cflags=-I/local/include 
 --extra-ldflags=-L/local/lib --prefix=/home --disable-ffserver --disable-ffplay"
# The following line is for FAAC support
CONFIGURE_PARAMS="$CONFIGURE_PARAMS --enable-faac --extra-cflags=-Id:/faac/include 
 --extra-ldflags=-Ld:/faac/libfaac/Release"

./configure --enable-shared $CONFIGURE_PARAMS

make
-----------

This gives me the following error:

d:\mingw\bin\..\lib\gcc-lib\mingw32\3.2.3\..\..\..\..\mingw32\bin\ld.exe: 
cannot find -lfaac

My PATH variable is:

.:/usr/local/bin:/mingw/bin:/bin:/c/Perl/bin/:/c/WINDOWS/system32:/c/WINDOWS:/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/d/gcc/bin/:/mingw/bin/:/d/faac/libfaac/Release:/d/faac/libfaac/ReleaseDLL

Can you find the reason for the problem? I suppose the reason is, that I 
didn't run a necessary "make install" command of faac after compiling faac. 
But I'm not sure.

Thanks for responding so fast!

Lars