> -----Original Message-----
> From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-boun...@ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of Martin
> Storsjö
> Sent: Freitag, 16. Mai 2025 10:19
> To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org>
> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [FFmpeg-cvslog] fftools/graphprint: Now, make it a
> Killer-Feature!
>
> On Fri, 16 May 2025, softworkz . wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-boun...@ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of Martin
> >> Storsjö
> >> Sent: Freitag, 16. Mai 2025 08:22
> >> To: ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org
> >> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [FFmpeg-cvslog] fftools/graphprint: Now, make
> it a
> >> Killer-Feature!
> >>
> >> On Thu, 15 May 2025, softworkz wrote:
> >>
> >>> ffmpeg | branch: master | softworkz <softwo...@hotmail.com> | Thu May 15
> >> 23:10:02 2025 +0200| [1f2b8d7238eff4ab8a4d8d6177e250b8180d51f4] |
> committer:
> >> softworkz
> >>>
> >>> fftools/graphprint: Now, make it a Killer-Feature!
> >>>
> >>> remember this: -sg <= means Show Graph
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: softworkz <softwo...@hotmail.com>
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>
> http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/ffmpeg.git/?a=commit;h=1f2b8d7238eff4ab8a4d
> >> 8d6177e250b8180d51f4
> >>> ---
> >>
> >> This broke compilation in a number of configurations:
> >>
> >> Windows UWP/Phone:
> >> https://fate.ffmpeg.org/report.cgi?slot=arm-msvc2022-
> >> winphone&time=20250516053009
> >>
> >> filelauncher.o : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol ShellExecuteA
> >> referenced in function ff_open_html_in_browser
> >> ffmpeg_g.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
> >>
> >> iOS:
> >> https://fate.ffmpeg.org/report.cgi?slot=aarch64-apple-darwin-
> >> ios18&time=20250516011754
> >>
> >> src/fftools/graph/filelauncher.c:61:13: error: 'system' is unavailable:
> >> not available on iOS
> >> 61 | if (system(cmd) != 0)
> >> | ^
> >>
> /Users/mstorsjo/Xcode_16.2.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/
> >> Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS.sdk/usr/include/_stdlib.h:184:6:
> >> note: 'system' has been explicitly marked unavailable here
> >> 184 | int system(const char *) __DARWIN_ALIAS_C(system);
> >> | ^
> >> 1 error generated.
> >>
> >> tvOS:
> >> https://fate.ffmpeg.org/report.cgi?slot=aarch64-apple-darwin-
> >> tvos18&time=20250516014542
> >>
> >> src/fftools/graph/filelauncher.c:61:13: error: 'system' is unavailable:
> >> not available on tvOS
> >> 61 | if (system(cmd) != 0)
> >> | ^
> >>
> /Users/mstorsjo/Xcode_16.2.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/AppleTVOS.platform
> >> /Developer/SDKs/AppleTVOS.sdk/usr/include/_stdlib.h:184:6:
> >> note: 'system' has been explicitly marked unavailable here
> >> 184 | int system(const char *) __DARWIN_ALIAS_C(system);
> >> | ^
> >> 1 error generated.
> >>
> >> // Martin
> >>
> >
> > Hi Martin,
> >
> > do you think this is a reasonable condition for Apple in configure?
> >
> > enable browser_launch
> > if test -n "$sysroot"; then
> > case "$sysroot" in
> > */iPhone*.sdk|\
> > */AppleTV*.sdk|\
> > */WatchOS*.sdk|\
> > */BridgeOS*.sdk)
> > disable browser_launch
> > ;;
> > esac
> > fi
>
> This is not how we normally do it. String matching trying to detect things
> is generally brittle. If the problem is that we can't compile a call to
> system(), the configure check should try to compile a call to system(),
> and if that doesn't succeed, avoid compiling the code that does that. That
> also works for e.g. ShellExecuteA.
I'm preparing a patch that aims to limit this to Windows, Linux and Mac
(regardless of API availability) and I'm not sure how to determine whether
mac or the others above in configure.
Is there a better way?
> That said, I also agree with everybody else that I'd rather not have
> ffmpeg do this at all.
This is meant as a quick fix to unbreak the builds, for the final feature
behavior, I'm open to discussion as mentioned.
Thanks,
sw
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