[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] static linking against directfb failed

[Ville Syrjälä]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:38:05PM +0800, Selwyn Tang wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I tried to build a statically linked mplayer with directfb support, but it
> failed because the test file used by the configure script was compiled without
> -lpthread, which seems to be required by directfb.a. See the attached patch.

You can't just link the app statically against libdirectfb because
DirectFB loads all drivers dynamically. There's an example how to link
DirectFB apps statically in DirectFB source distribution
(tools/dfb_static_build_example).

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Ville Syrjälä
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