[MPlayer-cvslog] r22798 - trunk/libdha/Makefile

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 07:18:07PM +0200, Benjamin Zores wrote:
> Diego Biurrun a écrit :
> >On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 01:10:31AM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> >>On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 03:20:24PM +0100, diego wrote:
> >>>Log:
> >>>Build shared lib on all platforms.
> >>This should be tested at configure time. There's not necessarily any
> >>way to build a shared lib. (In particular my system does not support
> >>shared libs.)
> >
> >I've always wondered why libdha and VIDIX were built as shared libs at
> >all.  It's not like they're really used outside of MPlayer AFAIK.
> 
> I wanted to make them static as most as possible and have all drivers 
> built-in but:
> - this implies potential API rewrite.

Why?  Can't we just link statically and be done with it?  At least the
MPlayer copy?

> - Nick is against the idea cause the current way allows having 
> closed-source vidix drivers as external .so (judging by the API's 
> stability and whole project's status, no one will ever such such though).

Forget it, no proprietary shop is going to bother with something as
obscure as VIDIX.

Diego