From 33a7b453a8e1f090c694ea4f36769dc837be88f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Kelley Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 16:22:33 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] doc: mention option to mix shared/static libraries Signed-off-by: Vittorio Giovara --- doc/platform.texi | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/platform.texi b/doc/platform.texi index 356ee2f747..3ada146e79 100644 --- a/doc/platform.texi +++ b/doc/platform.texi @@ -24,6 +24,17 @@ If not, then you should install a different compiler that has no hard-coded path to gas. In the worst case pass @code{--disable-asm} to configure. +@section Advanced linking configuration + +If you compiled Libav libraries statically and you want to use them to +build your own shared library, you may need to force PIC support (with +@code{--enable-pic} during Libav configure) and add the following option +to your project LDFLAGS: + +@example +-Wl,-Bsymbolic +@end example + @section BSD BSD make will not build Libav, you need to install and use GNU Make