[Libav-user] Can not link ffmpeg without pkg-config

[Peter Steinbach]

linking order matters definitely! see this nice introductory post 
http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2013/07/09/library-order-in-static-linking/

put -lx264 after -lavcodec!
Peter

On 08/30/2016 01:28 PM, Javier Lopez wrote:
> I simplified a few using the pkg-config to one call by using both flags:
> --clibs and --cflags:
>
> gcc  -o ffmpeg_player ffmpeg_player_01.c -Wall -ggdb $(pkg-config --cflags
> --libs libavformat libavcodec libswresample libswscale libavutil sdl) -lm
>
> And it worked!
>
>
> I also tried to compile without the pkg-config adding all dependencies:
>
> gcc  -o ffmpeg_player ffmpeg_player_01.c -Wall -ggdb -lavformat -lvdpau
> -lva -lva-drm -lva-x11 -lxcb -lxcb-shm -lxcb -lxcb-xfixes -lxcb-render
> -lxcb-shape -lX11 -lasound -lSDL -lx264 -lmp3lame -lfdk-aac -lm -lz
> -pthread -lavcodec -lvdpau -lswresample -lswscale -lavutil -lSDL
>
> Still I have following error: libavcodec/libx264.c:814: undefined reference
> to `x264_encoder_open_148'
>
> I listed all dependencies of libavcodec and all of them where included,
> perhaps order minds.
>
>
>
>
>
> 2016-08-29 16:11 GMT+02:00 Javier Lopez <jlopez2022 at gmail.com>:
>
>> I would like to simplify in order to add more libs to the ffmpeg like
>> opencl and sdl libs and I do not know how to link using pkg-config
>> combined with no pkg-config libraries
>> I tried to add the sdl-config but it did not worked.
>> I will try to add all those libraries and to list them using pkg-config
>> --libs,
>>
>> javier
>>
>> 2016-08-29 14:29 GMT+02:00 Perette Barella <perette at barella.org>:
>>
>>>> Then I can compile and link using the following command line:
>>>> gcc  -o ffmpeg_grabber ffmpeg_grabber_03.c -Wall -ggdb $(pkg-config
>>> --cflags libavformat libavcodec libswresample libswscale libavutil sdl)
>>> $(pkg-config --libs libavformat libavcodec libswresample libswscale
>>> libavutil sdl) -lm
>>>>
>>>> But I have a lot of link errors (undefined a lot of things) removing
>>> pkg-config:
>>>> gcc  -o test test.c -Wall -lavformat -lavcodec -lswresample -lswscale
>>> -lavutil -lm
>>>>
>>>> The question is: How to avoid undefine errors without using the
>>> pkg-config?
>>>
>>> When static linking, you need to link not only the ffmpeg libraries
>>> themselves, but all the libraries that they link to in turn.  In this
>>> command:
>>>> pkg-config --libs libavformat libavcodec libswresample libswscale
>>> libavutil sdl
>>>
>>>
>>> `pkg-config --libs` gets the link flags necessary (there’s also a
>>> --cflags option too), including all those indirectly needed libraries, to
>>> link.  You can run pkg-config --libs on the command line to see the list.
>>>
>>> This list will not always be the same.  My Mac, for example, includes
>>> pthreads among the automatically-linked system libraries, so there will be
>>> no ‘-lpthreads’, but it includes -L/opt/local/lib, because it’s installed
>>> in a non-default place where the linker won’t look.  Link flags also depend
>>> on what ffmpeg was configured and built with: for example, if libfoobar is
>>> installed, there could be a dependency for -lfoobar; but if missing when I
>>> ran ./configure on ffmpeg, then I might have ffmpeg but without whatever
>>> capabilities foobar provides.  `configure` scripts see what’s available and
>>> build what they can, and they often utilize information from pkg-config
>>> where it’s available.
>>>
>>> I wonder *why* are you avoiding pkg-config? Are you planning to
>>> build/compile on a system without it?  Are you thinking of a portable
>>> `configure` script, and considering what to do if pkg-config is missing?
>>> Because pkg-config came about to solve the problem you’re running into.
>>> I’ve seen some debate about whether pkg-config solves the problem right,
>>> but it is the thing in place and trying to avoid it is to make yourself
>>> problems.  Not using it means a lot of extra trouble, so unless you have a
>>> *really* good reason...
>>>
>>> Perette
>>>
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