[Ffmpeg-devel] Error Compiling FFMPEG

[Måns Rullgård]

Jacob Meuser <jakemsr at jakemsr.com> writes:

>> >> > /usr/bin/ld: bitstream.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local
>> >> > symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile
>> >> > with -fPIC
>> >> 
>> >> Do as it tells you, add --extra-cflags=-fPIC to your configure flags.
>> >
>> > but then you get PIC _everywhere_, not just in library objects.
>> 
>> Which part of libavcodec is not a library?
>
> the user is compiling all of FFmpeg, which includes ffmpeg, ffplay,
> and ffserver.
>
> the --extra-cflags option adds the specified flags the CFLAGS that
> are used everywhere when compiling FFmpeg.
>
> so, using --extra-cflags=-fPIC will add -fPIC to the CFLAGS used to
> compile ffmpeg, ffplay, and ffserver.

OK, but why is that a problem?  The reason for not using is -fPIC is
the sometimes slower code it produces, but that should be
insignificant for those three programs.  99.99% of the time is spent
in libavcodec anyway.

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