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Matt Kline
Matt Kline

Reputation: 10487

Linking libavformat in Visual Studio 2010

I'm attempting to build some video-reading code around libavformat. After getting the compiled DLLs and .lib files here, I go to build my code, and the linker can't find any of the libavformat symbols even though I've linked in the provided .lib files.

Inspecting libavformat.lib with dumpbin -headers reveals that it exports the desired functions with an underscore prefix. For example, while I want to call avformat_open_input, the .lib file gives _avformat_open_input.

Why is this, and why can't I link the precompiled dlls?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4499

Answers (3)

Didac Perez Parera
Didac Perez Parera

Reputation: 3814

What about compiling it as a .lib static library?

Upvotes: 0

Salman
Salman

Reputation: 1380

You need to do following all tasks to use libav with MSVC++. First goto Zeranoe

  1. Download Shared Version, Copy all .dll files from bin folder and paste them in the output directory where exe will be generated.
  2. Download Developer Version, Copy all .lib files from lib folder and paste them with your main c++ file is located (e.g. Folder-1\Folder-2 Where Folder-1 has the .sln file so you have to put .lib files in Folder-2)
  3. From Developer Version you downloaded in Step 2 copy all directories from include folder and paste them in Folder-2 (See details about Folder-2 in step 2)
  4. Download inttypes.h and stdint.h, save it on this location C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\include\ folder.
  5. To include header files use following syntax

You have to use this extern because libav is a C library.

extern "C" {
    #include "libavcodec/avcodec.h"
    #include "libavdevice/avdevice.h"
    #include "libavfilter/avfilter.h"
    #include "libavformat/avformat.h"
    #include "libavutil/avutil.h"
}

Upvotes: 8

hege
hege

Reputation: 1017

Fetch the 32-bit libraries and you should be fine :) Your application platform has to match the libraries used (and vica versa).

Upvotes: 0

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