[Libav-user] Dll Versioning

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Mark Kenna
<mark.kenna at sureviewsystems.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys
>
> I am trying to find a way of allowing my application to be able to load
> multiple versions of the FFMpeg DLL's at the same time.
>
> I understand that I need to segregate the releases so that they do not
> conflict. Currently my idea is to rename the .dll files for one particular
> release to *.v123.dll". I understand that you cannot just rename the files
> and some work would have to go into the re-creation of the .lib files using
> DUMPBIN but I was wondering if there is an easier way as I can see that the
> dll files all seem to reference each other internally.
>

You can specify a suffix when building ffmpeg, which is appended to
all libraries and the lib import files.
Check the --build-suffix option.

- Hendrik