[Libav-user] statically linking x264 and x265 into ffmpeg

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Hi!

2016-09-06 12:55 GMT+02:00 Peter Steinbach <steinbach at scionics.de>:
> On 09/06/2016 12:00 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:

>> An alternative is using "/path/to/lib.a" on
>> the linking line instead of "-L/path/to -llib".
>
> Alright, I'll look into doing that. So you mean that I should add
> ```
> --extra-libs="-L/path/to/static/libx264a -lx264"
> ```
> right?

No.
Instead of using "-L/path/to -llib" use "/path/to/lib.a".

[...]

>> Just curious: Does --enable-pic really have an effect?
>
> AFAIK, yes. PIC is propagated to the compiler calls, PIC is
> then generated and I can bundle the library as I wish to.
>
>> Which platform is this?
>
> I am working on fc23 right now. the static libs coming with
> fedora all have -fPIE enabled (if I understood the docs
> correctly), which doesn't help me at all.

I suggest you test this independently, I would expect that
your binaries will not pass the "test" even with --enable-pic:
You may have to use --disable-asm (which of course makes
your resulting binaries nearly unusable), the same is likely
true for x264 (where the effect is probably even worse).

Carl Eugen