From: Pierre Ynard Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:11:17 +0000 (+0100) Subject: x264: Use -Bsymbolic to fix static link X-Git-Url: http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=c20cca8148346e2a3b1a7c0bae69fa74675731ed x264: Use -Bsymbolic to fix static link On my linux x86_64 system, when trying to statically link the x264 module against libx264, I get the following error: /usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libx264.a(cabac-a.o): relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against symbol `x264_cabac_range_lps' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value Even though libx264 was compiled as PIC. Dynamically linking against the shared library, built during the same process, works well. The x264 folks said that VLC needed to use the -Bsymbolic flag to allow conversation of a static PIC library into a shared library, so that's what I did, and it works for me. Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf --- diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 8ae1003..ffc4d36 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -3748,7 +3748,7 @@ if test "${enable_x264}" != "no"; then VLC_ADD_LIBS([x264],[-L${real_x264_tree}]) PKG_CHECK_MODULES(X264,x264, [ VLC_ADD_PLUGIN([x264]) - VLC_ADD_LDFLAGS([x264],[${X264_LIBS}]) + VLC_ADD_LDFLAGS([x264],[${X264_LIBS} -Wl,-Bsymbolic]) VLC_ADD_CFLAGS([x264],[${X264_CFLAGS}]) if echo ${X264_LIBS} |grep -q 'pthreadGC2'; then VLC_ADD_CFLAGS([x264], [-DPTW32_STATIC_LIB]) @@ -3764,7 +3764,7 @@ if test "${enable_x264}" != "no"; then else PKG_CHECK_MODULES(X264,x264, [ VLC_ADD_PLUGIN([x264]) - VLC_ADD_LDFLAGS([x264],[${X264_LIBS}]) + VLC_ADD_LDFLAGS([x264],[${X264_LIBS} -Wl,-Bsymbolic]) VLC_ADD_CFLAGS([x264],[${X264_CFLAGS}]) if echo ${X264_LIBS} |grep -q 'pthreadGC2'; then VLC_ADD_CFLAGS([x264], [-DPTW32_STATIC_LIB])