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| author | Clément Bœsch <clement@stupeflix.com> | 2013-11-28 14:08:06 +0100 |
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| committer | Clément Bœsch <clement@stupeflix.com> | 2013-11-28 14:08:06 +0100 |
| commit | 0d2c832445e18bdc1cb40583675b5f58552de618 (patch) | |
| tree | 7eec70390df5cb547fbd1cb2807613b28d2d6636 | |
| parent | 1d751768f3d48c5850badd59e34cc35deee78023 (diff) | |
| download | ffmpeg-0d2c832445e18bdc1cb40583675b5f58552de618.tar.gz | |
doc/examples: update README.
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diff --git a/doc/examples/README b/doc/examples/README index cb408814f0..9ee9fe3ac0 100644 --- a/doc/examples/README +++ b/doc/examples/README @@ -5,14 +5,19 @@ Both following use cases rely on pkg-config and make, thus make sure that you have them installed and working on your system. -1) Build the installed examples in a generic read/write user directory +Method 1: build the installed examples in a generic read/write user directory Copy to a read/write user directory and just use "make", it will link to the libraries on your system, assuming the PKG_CONFIG_PATH is correctly configured. -2) Build the examples in-tree +Method 2: build the examples in-tree Assuming you are in the source FFmpeg checkout directory, you need to build -FFmpeg (no need to make install in any prefix). Then you can go into -doc/examples and run a command such as PKG_CONFIG_PATH=pc-uninstalled make. +FFmpeg (no need to make install in any prefix). Then just run "make examples". +This will build the examples using the FFmpeg build system. You can clean those +examples using "make examplesclean" + +If you want to try the dedicated Makefile examples (to emulate a the first +method), go into doc/examples and run a command such as +PKG_CONFIG_PATH=pc-uninstalled make. |