[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v2] ffbuild: read library linker objects from a file

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi Gyan

On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 08:22:56PM +0530, Gyan Doshi wrote:
> The linker command can exceed the maximum argument limit on MinGW,
> especially for libavcodec.
> 
> The objects list is now stored in a file and passed to the linker.
> ---
> v2:
>    static linking also switched to use a file for object list
>    objs added to clean target and to gitignore
> 
>  .gitignore          | 1 +
>  ffbuild/common.mak  | 2 +-
>  ffbuild/library.mak | 8 ++++++--
>  3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

fails build

./configure && make -j32
...
make

AR	libavdevice/libavdevice.a
ar: $^: No such file or directory
make: *** [ffbuild/library.mak:39: libavdevice/libavdevice.a] Error 1

thx

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