[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Cygwin vhook, always static avformat

[Víctor Paesa]

Hi,

>> > >Why do you want to install the shared libs in $(bindir)?
>> > It's the Cygwin way, DLLs are together with EXEs in the same directory, 
>>and
>> > import libraries for DLLs  are in $(libdir).
>>
>>But is this necessary?  Will it work if the DLLs are in $(libdir)
>>anyway?
>LD_CONFIG_PATH, LD_RUN PATH are not honored, unfortunately DLLs use the 
>same search path as executables, so to use $(libdir) I would need to set:
>
>export PATH="$PATH:$libdir"
>
>I am not sure if -rpath works, I will check.

-rpath does not work either, I am afraid that installing the DLLs together 
with EXEs will be a neccessary evil.

Regards,
V?ctor