[FFmpeg-user] Dynamically linking to OpenJPEG 2 library

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Aaron Boxer <boxerab <at> gmail.com> writes:

> > > Do you mind telling me:
> > >
> > > 1) your OS
> >
> > This is completely irrelevant but I tested on Linux.
> > Due to secret decisions of the openjpeg maintainers
> > you will need an OS with cmake support though;-(
> 
> Thanks. This might be relevant based on where the .so 
> file is placed.

The distro I am using has a linker installed which also 
searches in /usr/local/lib by default. If this is not 
true for the linker you are using, you have to pass a 
path to the library directory with --extra-ldflags. In 
any case, it will be necessary to tell your system where 
to search for dynamic libraries on runtime (note that you 
reported a linking error, not a runtime issue) or to move 
your openjpeg installation to /usr/lib. I suspect the 
INSTALL file in the openjpeg release also contains useful 
information on how to change the installation path.
(All this has not much to do with FFmpeg.)

I believe I already told you that if you have multiple 
instances of libopenjpeg installed, you may easily get 
in trouble, the more so with dynamic libraries.
(This has even less to do with FFmpeg.)

Carl Eugen