Help Compiling Static Binary

[Gordon Messmer]

On 07/23/2015 10:38 AM, Richard Heck wrote:
>
> The libraries are all there, though, where one would expect to find 
> them. And non-static compilation works fine (with the right version of 
> ffmpeg).

Static linking requires ".a" files, which probably aren't there. Some 
libraries, such as glibc have a static package available 
(glibc-static).  Others, like vorbis, don't appear to.  For any library 
package that doesn't provide a static library, you'd have to build those 
manually as well.

> Alternatively, is it possible to install older ffmpeg libraries, etc, 
> alongside the newer ones and tell minidlna to use those? If so, how?

Probably.  Often all that's required is to get the old package and "rpm 
-i <package>".  As long as there aren't file conflicts, it should 
install.  If ffmpeg's library changed in an incompatible way, they 
should have also changed the so number, so that the old one can install 
in parallel.

Did you have to create symlinks to libraries to get minidlna to run?