[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] libavutil split out

Michael Niedermayer michael at niedermayer.cc
Thu Oct 31 20:14:32 EET 2024


Hi

On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 10:12:57AM +0100, Tomas Härdin wrote:
> tor 2024-10-31 klockan 01:08 +0100 skrev Michael Niedermayer:
[...]
> > , well iam sure
> > you see this doesnt work
> > build ffmpeg first, theres no libmycodec,
> > build libmycodec first, theres no libavutil
> > now of course this can be worked around by building ffmpeg twice
> > But this is not documented, not suggested, not tested and not
> > considered
> > 
> > of course myself spliting out libpostproc made me realize this issue.
> > But
> > its a much broader problem than libpostproc. For libpostproc i can
> > just
> > copy everything and remove all libavutil dependancies
> > And even without that it builds and works fine and all but only
> > because i had
> > a prior build libavutil installed from before.
> 
> Are you trying to make libpostproc into a standalone library in a
> separate source tree? Why? Surely the build system can be improved to
> only building it and libavutil if someone wants that

iam also curious why, but several people asked for libpostproc
to be removed from ffmpeg over the years.

If the consensus is now, to keep it in ffmpeg iam perfectly ok with that.
But id like to know which way it is :)

thx

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