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First I'm not Solaris/Linux guy, pure Windows.
My problem: I need to get ffmpeg executables on hosting Solaris servers. The first and obvious way it to take source code and compile it there. But there can be difficulties and I decided to defer this option. Option two: there are build packages for solaris 11 of ffmpeg (http://www.solarismultimedia.com/?q=node/53)
I don't have root permissions on hostring servers and can not perform any package operations. So I thought maybe it is possible to get package from the repo mentioned above and manually upload executables to server, and then do the stuff.
The problem is that I don't have any solaris machine to download the package. Actually only windows available.
What can be solution to the problem?
Have you tried to compile ffmpeg? It may be not as horrible as you think -- at least some comments in ffmpeg's
configure
suggest that Solaris is handeled. – mpy – 2013-03-02T18:11:54.967Not yet, I just never compiled anything in linux/solaris, and the first time I had to do it in uncontrolled environment. But it seems that I have no choice -) – WHITECOLOR – 2013-03-02T18:35:55.757
Start with
./configure --prefix=$HOME/ffmpeg
(I prefer to test a program inside a separate directory before I let it mess up $HOME/bin ...) and if finished without error runmake && make install
. At least that's the normals procedure in Linux or Cygwin. – mpy – 2013-03-02T20:23:29.4771Ok, thanks, my hosting provider (actually nodejitsu) says that it is a bad pattern to compile very time I deploy the app. They say the will check the decision on not installing ffmpeg. Other wise maybe I will just setup in on VDS. – WHITECOLOR – 2013-03-03T11:07:35.477