Compile ffmpeg as stand alone binary

Question

I'm trying to compile ffmpeg as a standalone binary (because I want to use it in AWS lambda)

I can get things to work fine on the server where I'm compiling, but if I copy the binary and run it from another server, I get:

./ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libvdpau.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So it sounds like something didn't made it into the binary. From what I've read, I've to compile ffmpeg with the flags --disable-shared and --enable-static, which I've done:

PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$HOME/ffmpeg_build/lib/pkgconfig" ./configure \
  --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" \
  --pkg-config-flags="--static" \
  --extra-cflags="-I$HOME/ffmpeg_build/include" \
  --extra-ldflags="-L$HOME/ffmpeg_build/lib" \
  --bindir="$HOME/bin" \
  --disable-shared \
  --enable-static \
  --enable-gpl \
  --enable-libass \
  --enable-libfreetype \
  --enable-libmp3lame \
  --enable-libvpx \
  --enable-libx264
PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" make
make install
make distclean
hash -r

Is there something I'm missing?

Answer 1

Even though I didn't succeed to compile everything in one binary, I've been able to upload the dependencies to AWS lambda by doing:

copy all dependencies in a folder

I wrote a python script to do that. The script relies on lld to list the dependencies.

#!/usr/bin/env python
import subprocess
import os
from shutil import copyfile

def copyLibraries(bin, destination):
  if not os.path.exists(destination):
    os.makedirs(destination)

  output = subprocess.Popen(["ldd", bin], stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0]
  for l in output.split('\n'):
    if len(l.split("=> ")) > 1:
      lib_location = l.split("=> ")[1].split(" ")[0].strip()
      if lib_location != "":
        real_location = os.path.realpath(lib_location)

        lib_name = real_location.split('/')[-1]

        copyfile(real_location, destination + lib_name)

        if os.path.islink(lib_location):
          link_name = lib_location.split('/')[-1]
          if link_name != lib_name:
            os.symlink(real_location, destination + link_name)

copyLibraries("/home/ubuntu/bin/ffmpeg", "/home/ubuntu/libs/")

AWS lambda

• include the ffmpeg binary as well as the libs folder in the lambda zipped code.
• in the lambda code, include the corresponding paths. In node.js this can be done as:

.

process.env['PATH'] = process.env['PATH'] +
  ':' +    process.env['LAMBDA_TASK_ROOT'] +
  ':' + process.env['LAMBDA_TASK_ROOT'] + '/bin' +
  ':' + process.env['LAMBDA_TASK_ROOT'] + '/lib';