diff --git a/libswscale/swscale_internal.h b/libswscale/swscale_internal.h
index 5218ab0921..195b853586 100644
--- a/libswscale/swscale_internal.h
+++ b/libswscale/swscale_internal.h
@@ -958,6 +958,9 @@ extern const int32_t ff_yuv2rgb_coeffs[11][4];
 
 extern const AVClass ff_sws_context_class;
 
+int ff_sws_init_single_context(SwsContext *sws, SwsFilter *srcFilter,
+                               SwsFilter *dstFilter);
+
 /**
  * Set c->convert_unscaled to an unscaled converter if one exists for the
  * specific source and destination formats, bit depths, flags, etc.
diff --git a/libswscale/utils.c b/libswscale/utils.c
index a01138d11b..63c7df5c8c 100644
--- a/libswscale/utils.c
+++ b/libswscale/utils.c
@@ -1312,8 +1312,8 @@ static enum AVPixelFormat alphaless_fmt(enum AVPixelFormat fmt)
     }
 }
 
-static av_cold int sws_init_single_context(SwsContext *sws, SwsFilter *srcFilter,
-                                           SwsFilter *dstFilter)
+av_cold int ff_sws_init_single_context(SwsContext *sws, SwsFilter *srcFilter,
+                                       SwsFilter *dstFilter)
 {
     int i;
     int usesVFilter, usesHFilter;
@@ -2064,7 +2064,7 @@ static int context_init_threaded(SwsContext *sws,
             return ret;
         slice->threads = 1;
 
-        ret = sws_init_single_context(slice, src_filter, dst_filter);
+        ret = ff_sws_init_single_context(slice, src_filter, dst_filter);
         if (ret < 0)
             return ret;
 
@@ -2109,7 +2109,7 @@ av_cold int sws_init_context(SwsContext *sws, SwsFilter *srcFilter,
         // threading disabled in this build, init as single-threaded
     }
 
-    return sws_init_single_context(sws, srcFilter, dstFilter);
+    return ff_sws_init_single_context(sws, srcFilter, dstFilter);
 }
 
 SwsContext *sws_getContext(int srcW, int srcH, enum AVPixelFormat srcFormat,