I am trying to make static builds of MLT.

This is for writing compilation guidelines for packagers.

Can you help me compile?

While this may fix a build against a static installation of ffmpeg in /usr, it clearly is not advisable to hardcode ffmpeg lib paths.

Rather, some option should be passed to mlt, that makes it do "-static" on the linker line.

Thanks Christian, it compiles fine. libmltavformat is linked staticly.

Then I test using inigo:

inigo out.ogv

mlt_repository.c, mlt_repository_init: failed to dlopen /usr/lib/mlt/libmltavformat.so

 

It seems more tricky ... compiling staticly may have side effects.

For the moment, I am about to give up this experience, until someone comes up with a clean solution.