[Bf-committers] Re: compiling ffmpeg support on linux

Ken Hughes khughes at pacific.edu
Thu Jul 20 23:46:48 CEST 2006


Peter Schlaile wrote:
 >Hi,
 >
 >> does one need a ffmpeg installation in '/usr' ?
 >> i thought it was a "local" version within blender ?
 >
 >there is a local version, that only works with the "make"-system right 
now.
 >
 >If you want to use Scons, you have to compile your own version seperately
 >and link against this. (which is not really harder, though...)
 >
 >If you want to contribute Scons build support, you are welcome!

Thought I'd take a look at adding scons support today, but wanted to get 
some feedback/guidance before starting.

First, will the goal be to use the libs in extern always, or should 
there be a way to use the ones installed with the distro?

Second, the make version is using configure to detect and generate the 
options for the platform.  This seems mainly to be the target hardware 
and operating system.  I've written a python script which takes the 
output of configure (config.mak) and parses to get the CONFIG_* and 
TARGET_* flags, then decide what to include in the library.  I can't 
think of a cleaner way to do this without duplicating the functionality 
of configure inside scons.

Third, I assume on other platforms this will be run under a unix-like 
environment (not from MSVC).  I'd probably have to hand off development 
at that point for testing.

Fourth, anything I'm missing?  Is JesterKing is back?

Ken


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