[FFmpeg-devel] configure: Prioritize 'sdl2-config'-check

[Reino Wijnsma]

On 11-5-2017 13:56, Stephen Hutchinson <qyot27 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/11/2017 7:43 AM, Reino Wijnsma wrote:
>> https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/6377#comment:2:
>>> Inadequate for building FFPlay, yes. But perhaps not for other
>>> software.
>>> Are there any downsides to my proposition?
>> I could of course contact the sdl2 developers, but when 'sdl2-config'
>> already has the librarylist setup right to build FFPlay, why not just do
>> the 'sdl2-config'-check first? Is there are reason why FFMpeg's
>> 'configure' does the 'check_pkg_config sdl2'-check first?
> Those libs mentioned as 'missing' in the ticket are not
> supposed to be public, since they're MinGW-w64 system libs;
> at least here, they *are* in sdl2.pc, under Libs.private.
> And the proper way to get pkg-config to recognize that is
> to set the --static flag.
>
> IIRC, this should only be a problem when building as static,
> and as mentioned above, that means you should be setting
> --pkg-config-flags="--static" when configuring FFmpeg.
Hmm, I didn't know about --pkg-config-flags="--static". I've just done a
./configure [...] --pkg-config-flags=--static and in 'config.log' I can
see "ffplay=yes". I haven't done a make install yet, but I assume FFPlay
will be build without problems. If not, I'll report back at you.
Thanks, qyot27!