[vlc-devel] [vlc-commits] contrib: OSX use shared libraries

Jean-Baptiste Kempf jb at videolan.org
Mon Nov 21 22:33:45 CET 2011

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:30:29PM +0100, Felix Paul Kühne wrote :
> While libdvdcss is probably supposed to compile flawlessly as a static library, we will probably want to include that very library as a shared one. There are a few reasons why we don't want to link to it statically, which other people could explain way better than me.

No. Those reasons are wrong. libdvdcss is totally legal in France.

> Additionally, we don't want to break our embedded support for Handbrake, do we?

Yes. That's a good reason. The other one isn't.

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Jean-Baptiste Kempf
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