On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 18:37:57 +0100 Marc Giger <gigerst...@gmx.ch> wrote:
> Hi Nicolas, > > On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 21:33:25 +0100 > Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote: > > > Le quintidi 25 nivôse, an CCXXIII, Marc Giger a écrit : > > > For example if they want use libfaac then > > > they should be able to do so without that much hassle a full > > > compilation inclusive all dependencies can be. > > > > I was expecting something like that. Unfortunately, it does not work > > that way: dlopen()ing libfaac will not allow you to omit > > --enable-nonfree and to redistribute the resulting binary, because > > the libfaac wrapper still includes the faac headers, which contain > > non-trivial code (including a big structure definition) that get > > translated into the resulting object file. > > That's a very good point. Never thought about it in this detail. > Given that fact I have to admin that dynamic loading makes > less sense. There may still be some usecases e.g. vaapi where it > would make sense, but this seems to be the minority. > > > > > Apart from that, I fully agree with Michael's last comment: using > > dynamic linker black magic to make this lazy linking transparent is > > the best option to implement that feature if it is deemed useful. > > libffi ? libavdynamiclinker? (Just joking...) > > Thanks for the clarification. > > Marc > > > > > > > On Linux/OpenSource OS's things > > > are > > > easy, on proprietary platforms ... > > > > Nothing prevents users on proprietary platforms from adopting > > automated repositories like Debian's apt system and everything that > > imitated it since to install Libre software, except the users' > > habits. Using such a repository to distribute your project is a good > > way of pushing users to change their habits for the better. > > > > Regards, > > > > -- > > Nicolas George > _______________________________________________ > ffmpeg-devel mailing list > ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org > http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
