I want to create a custom build of FFMPEG which rips out everything except for the ability to transmux HLS videos to MP4, and I need this build to be 100% static with no external dependencies
I tried using the following configuration:
./configure \
--extra-cflags='-static -static-libstdc++ -static-libgcc' \
--extra-cxxflags='-static -static-libstdc++ -static-libgcc' \
--extra-ldflags='-static -static-libstdc++ -static-libgcc' \
--pkg-config-flags='--static' \
--enable-static \
--disable-shared \
--disable-runtime-cpudetect \
--disable-autodetect \
--disable-ffplay \
--disable-ffprobe \
--disable-doc \
--disable-avdevice \
--disable-swresample \
--disable-swscale \
--disable-postproc \
--disable-pthreads \
--disable-w32threads \
--disable-os2threads \
--enable-network \
--disable-dct \
--disable-dwt \
--disable-error-resilience \
--disable-lsp \
--disable-lzo \
--disable-mdct \
--disable-rdft \
--disable-fft \
--disable-faan \
--disable-pixelutils \
--disable-encoders \
--disable-decoders \
--disable-hwaccels \
--disable-muxers \
--enable-muxer=mov \
--enable-muxer=mp4 \
--disable-demuxers \
--enable-demuxer=hls \
--enable-demuxer=mpegts \
--enable-demuxer=h264 \
--enable-demuxer=aac \
--disable-parsers \
--enable-parser=h264 \
--enable-parser=aac \
--disable-bsfs \
--disable-protocols \
--enable-protocol=tcp \
--enable-protocol=tls \
--enable-protocol=http \
--enable-protocol=https \
--enable-protocol=hls \
--disable-indevs \
--disable-outdevs \
--disable-devices \
--disable-filters \
--disable-alsa \
--disable-appkit \
--disable-avfoundation \
--disable-bzlib \
--disable-coreimage \
--disable-iconv \
--disable-lzma \
--enable-openssl \
--disable-sndio \
--disable-sdl2 \
--disable-securetransport \
--disable-xlib \
--disable-zlib \
--disable-amf \
--disable-audiotoolbox \
--disable-cuda-llvm \
--disable-cuvid \
--disable-d3d11va \
--disable-dxva2 \
--disable-ffnvcodec \
--disable-nvdec \
--disable-nvenc \
--disable-v4l2-m2m \
--disable-vaapi \
--disable-vdpau \
--disable-videotoolbox \
--disable-debug
This looked about like what I wanted:
install prefix /usr/local
source path .
C compiler gcc
C library glibc
ARCH x86 (generic)
big-endian no
runtime cpu detection no
standalone assembly yes
x86 assembler nasm
MMX enabled yes
MMXEXT enabled yes
3DNow! enabled yes
3DNow! extended enabled yes
SSE enabled yes
SSSE3 enabled yes
AESNI enabled yes
AVX enabled yes
AVX2 enabled yes
AVX-512 enabled yes
XOP enabled yes
FMA3 enabled yes
FMA4 enabled yes
i686 features enabled yes
CMOV is fast yes
EBX available yes
EBP available yes
debug symbols no
strip symbols yes
optimize for size no
optimizations yes
static yes
shared no
postprocessing support no
network support yes
threading support no
safe bitstream reader yes
texi2html enabled no
perl enabled yes
pod2man enabled yes
makeinfo enabled no
makeinfo supports HTML no
External libraries:
openssl
External libraries providing hardware acceleration:
Libraries:
avcodec avfilter avformat avutil
Programs:
ffmpeg
Enabled decoders:
Enabled encoders:
Enabled hwaccels:
Enabled parsers:
aac h264
Enabled demuxers:
aac h264 hls mpegts
Enabled muxers:
mov mp4
Enabled protocols:
hls http https tcp tls
Enabled filters:
aformat anull atrim format hflip null transpose trim vflip
Enabled bsfs:
null
Enabled indevs:
Enabled outdevs:
License: LGPL version 2.1 or later
It included several filters which I won't ever need or use, but these filters are pulled in automatically if you don't specify --disable-avfilter, and specifying --disable-avfilter prevents the ffmpeg binary from being produced. So I'm stuck with those.
Using these parameters and then running make, I received a binary that was about 5.9 MB in size and looked right:
$> ldd ffmpeg
not a dynamic executable
But when I try to run it:
$> ./ffmpeg -version
Segmentation fault
Using valgrind to try and inspect the cause of the segmentation fault:
$> valgrind ./ffmpeg -version
.... lots of stuff ...
==61362== Jump to the invalid address stated on the next line
==61362== at 0x0: ???
==61362== by 0x70BB1B: ??? (in /src/FFmpeg/ffmpeg)
==61362== by 0x70B2E6: ??? (in /src/FFmpeg/ffmpeg)
==61362== by 0x4033F9: ??? (in /src/FFmpeg/ffmpeg)
==61362== by 0x1FFF000677: ???
==61362== Address 0x0 is not stack'd, malloc'd or (recently) free'd
==61362==
==61362==
==61362== Process terminating with default action of signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
==61362== Bad permissions for mapped region at address 0x0
==61362== at 0x0: ???
==61362== by 0x70BB1B: ??? (in /src/FFmpeg/ffmpeg)
==61362== by 0x70B2E6: ??? (in /src/FFmpeg/ffmpeg)
==61362== by 0x4033F9: ??? (in /src/FFmpeg/ffmpeg)
==61362== by 0x1FFF000677: ???
==61362==
==61362== HEAP SUMMARY:
==61362== in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==61362== total heap usage: 0 allocs, 0 frees, 0 bytes allocated
==61362==
==61362== All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible
==61362==
==61362== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v
==61362== Use --track-origins=yes to see where uninitialised values come from
==61362== ERROR SUMMARY: 93 errors from 90 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)
Segmentation fault
Attempting to access memory at location 0x0sounds like trying to follow a null pointer. But I'm not sure how to fix this.
gdb backtrace
When I first ran gdb ./ffmpeg gdb immediately gave me a segmentation fault and I wasn't kicked into the gdb REPL, so I couldn't investigate
After rebuilding ffmpeg I was able to get in this time:
$> gdb ./ffmpeg
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Reading symbols from ffmpeg...done.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /src/FFmpeg/ffmpeg
warning: Error disabling address space randomization: Operation not permitted
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
#1 0x0000000000f9a8d5 in __register_frame_info_bases.part.6 ()
#2 0x00000000004445fd in frame_dummy ()
#3 0x0000000000000001 in ?? ()
#4 0x0000000000ebd20c in __libc_csu_init ()
#5 0x0000000000ebc9d7 in __libc_start_main ()
#6 0x000000000044451a in _start ()
(gdb)
I tried grep'ing the code base for __register_frame_info_bases and found nothing. So I'm not really sure where to go from here
A fix, but not an explanation
By randomly removing configuration parameters and rebuilding I discovered that --disable-pthreads was causing the segmentation fault. When I remove this, ffmpeg runs just fine
I don't know why this is the case, though. Why would they make it possible to remove something that you need to run?