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authorAndrew Kelley <superjoe30@gmail.com>2014-07-03 16:22:33 -0400
committerVittorio Giovara <vittorio.giovara@gmail.com>2014-07-09 09:57:10 -0400
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doc: mention option to mix shared/static libraries
Signed-off-by: Vittorio Giovara <vittorio.giovara@gmail.com>
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@@ -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