Allow building against system ffmpeg libararies on linux#43
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coretl
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Now it's 2026, I think your option of relying on system libraries is a much better approach to building. @gilesknap had to do basically the same thing to get this into a container anyway:
https://github.com/epics-containers/ibek-support/blob/main/ffmpegServer/ffmpegServer.install.yml
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| LIB_LIBS += avdevice avformat avcodec swresample swscale avutil | ||
| else | ||
| # Otherwise, use the system libraries | ||
| USR_INCLUDES += -I$(FFMPEG_INCLUDE) | ||
| LIB_SYS_LIBS += avdevice avformat avcodec swresample swscale avutil |
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Could we have a list of these libraries to be shared by ADCore and ffmpegServer? Besides that, LGTM
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Tested on RHEL 10, will try on some other distros as well.