[FFmpeg-user] ffmpeg static binary with libass enabled

[Young Kim]

On Friday, November 2, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Roger Pack wrote:
> > > > ass_fontconfig.c:(.text+0x10a5): undefined reference to `FcConfigDestroy'
> > > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > > > make: *** [ffmpeg_g] Error 1
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > When statically building for mingw, I know I have to do this hacky work
> > > around...
> > > 
> > > $ sed -i 's/-L${libdir} -lfontconfig[^l]*$/-L${libdir} -lfontconfig
> > > -lfreetype -lexpat/' "$PKG_CONFIG_PATH/fontconfig.
> > > 
> > > which actually might be related...
> > Thanks for the response. What exactly does this hack do? It looks like as if you are configuring pkg-config directly or something.
> > 
> 
> 
> oops the actual line is:
> $ sed -i 's/-L${libdir} -lfontconfig[^l]*$/-L${libdir} -lfontconfig
> -lfreetype -lexpat/' "$PKG_CONFIG_PATH/fontconfig.pc"
> 
> basically fontconfig (for some bizarre reason) expects you to call
> pkg-config --static --libs fontconfig (FFmpeg calls it like pkg-config
> --libs--which doesn't include everything needed for static). I had
> some chatting here on the mailing list and with the fontconfig
> people--we didn't reach a concensus as to who was wrong here :)
> 
> So that hack adds some dependencies to the fontconfig "pkg config"
> file so that ffmpeg picks them up.
> HTH.
> -r
> 
> 
> 

Thanks for the clarification. Just to make sure, where is this line supposed to be in? Is it in the configuration file or executed in the command line?

-Young