[FFmpeg-user] Static compile with embeded 3rd party libraries.

[Thomas Worth]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 2:25 AM, James Darnley <james.darnley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 26/08/2011, Tim Nicholson <tim.nicholson at bbc.co.uk> wrote:
>> On 25/08/11 19:01, James Darnley wrote:
>>> Do you have a static libfaac?
>>
>> According to yast, yes!
>>
>> libfaac-devel - Header files and static library for the faac library
>>
>> /usr/include/faac.h
>> /usr/include/faaccfg.h
>> /usr/lib64/libfaac.so
>
> You might want to check that.  I thought static libs were usually *.a
> and shared ones *.so.

"so" means "shared object" as far as I know. That's a shared lib.
Static is .a, as James pointed out.

FYI, on Mac OS X shared libs have a .dylib extension.