[Libav-user] Difference between libavformat and lavformat

Nicolas George george at nsup.org
Sat Jul 24 10:28:28 EEST 2021


Việt Hùng Nguyễn (12021-07-24):
> -lavformat is the linking direction to libavformat when you compile
> programs those use libavformat. This is a kind of link direction when using
> gcc, so if you use other compilers, let check you link options and point to
> libavformat in your platform

This is true.

More accurately, the -l option instructs the compiler to use a library,
and the file name of libraries starts with lib: -lSOMETHING tells the
compiler to look for a file named libSOMETHING.a or libSOMETHING.so in
the usual directories.

> On Sat, 24 Jul 2021 at 11:04 Marco Antonio <mgrazianodecastro-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
> wrote:

Please remember that top-posting is forbidden on FFmpeg mailing-lists.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George
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