From 0d2c832445e18bdc1cb40583675b5f58552de618 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Cl=C3=A9ment=20B=C5=93sch?= Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 14:08:06 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc/examples: update README. --- doc/examples/README | 13 +++++++++---- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) 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.