[FFmpeg-trac] #282(build system:closed): undefined reference to `_avdevice_register_all'

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#282: undefined reference to `_avdevice_register_all'
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             Reporter:  KSHawkEye    |                    Owner:  michael
                 Type:  defect       |                   Status:  closed
             Priority:  critical     |                Component:  build
              Version:  git          |  system
             Keywords:  undefined    |               Resolution:  invalid
  reference avdevice_register_all    |               Blocked By:
             Blocking:               |  Reproduced by developer:  0
Analyzed by developer:  0            |
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Comment (by reimar):

 I do not see any reasonable explanation, and I cannot reproduce it.
 However what seems to happen according to the reported facts is that
 avdevice_register_all is not exported from avdevice-54.dll.
 You can check that by running objdump -x libavdevice/avdevice-54.dll
 The interesting part is "The Export Tables (interpreted .edata section
 contents)"
 If it was generated correctly, it should have a part looking like this:
 {{{
 [Ordinal/Name Pointer] Table
         [   0] avdevice_configuration
         [   1] avdevice_license
         [   2] avdevice_register_all
         [   3] avdevice_version
 }}}
 The previous suggested hack of adding declspec(dllexport) should not be
 necessary, the information that these and only these functions should be
 exported comes from libavdevice/libavdevice.ver.
 That file in turn is generated from libavdevice/libavdevice.v.
 It is specified via the -Wl,--version-script,libavdevice/libavdevice.ver
 option when linking the dll file.
 This compilation step also generates a libavdevice/avdevice-54.def which
 should look like this:
 {{{
 EXPORTS
     avdevice_configuration @1
     avdevice_license @2
     avdevice_register_all @3
     avdevice_version @4
 }}}
 There is one very crazy theory how this could go wrong with SDL: Without
 setting -DDECLSPEC SDL will use dllspec(dllexport) and dllspec(dllimport)
 instead of version/def/dll.a files.
 This might mean that the linker ends up with some symbols being marked up
 via dllspec while also getting a version script, and due to some bug it
 might end up ignoring the version script.
 It seems very unlikely though, but if you want to investigate you will
 probably want to experiment with the commandline used to link the avdevice
 dll.

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