[FFmpeg-user] Dynamically linking to OpenJPEG 2 library

[Aaron Boxer]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:

> 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.)
>


OK, thanks for the info.


>
> 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.)
>


Yes, I tried to remove any other libopenjpeg instances.


Thanks,
Aaron