Static FFmpeg Build

sffmpeg is a simple cmake-based full-featured FFmpeg build helper.

It currently works on Linux and other POSIX systems (with a few tweaks). It has been tested the most heavily on Linux/x86_64 (Ubuntu 18.04). The helper will grab the latest versions of most FFmpeg dependencies, providing a way to effectively build, test and compare multiple builds of FFmpeg on the same host.

Requirements

sffmpeg requires:

• a POSIX-compliant system (virtually any system today)
• a recent version of gcc
• a recent version of cmake (3.6+)
• the autoconf and libtool utilities
• the pkg-config utility

Usage

Just type the following commands at the shell prompt:

$ git clone https://github.com/pyke369/sffmpeg
$ cd sffmpeg
$ make

Then go grab a coffee (or maybe ten). The helper will compile all FFmpeg dependencies for you. Once done, you should get an FFmpeg binary in the build/bin directory (with all dependencies statically linked-in).

$ build/bin/ffmpeg
ffmpeg version 4.3.2 Copyright (c) 2000-2021 the FFmpeg developers
  libavutil      56. 51.100 / 56. 51.100
  libavcodec     58. 91.100 / 58. 91.100
  libavformat    58. 45.100 / 58. 45.100
  libavdevice    58. 10.100 / 58. 10.100
  libavfilter     7. 85.100 /  7. 85.100
  libswscale      5.  7.100 /  5.  7.100
  libswresample   3.  7.100 /  3.  7.100
  libpostproc    55.  7.100 / 55.  7.100
Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder
usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]... {[outfile options] outfile}...

From there, you may use the binary immediately or build a Debian package for later deployment (see below).

Packaging

(requires devscripts package)

You may optionally build a Debian package by typing the following command at the shell prompt:

$ make deb

The ffmpeg, ffprobe and frmxtract binaries will be installed by the package in the /usr/local/bin directory.

$ sudo dpkg -i ../sffmpeg_4.3.2_amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package sffmpeg.
Unpacking sffmpeg (4.3.2) ...
Setting up sffmpeg (4.3.2) ...