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Build Independent ffprobe on macOS

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Prerequisite

Install make

brew install make

Build

git clone FFmpeg/FFmpeg

git clone https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg.git

git checkout the desire version

git checkout release/5.1

Run configure command on the Terminal

./configure \
  --enable-static \
  --pkg-config-flags=--static \
  --disable-ffmpeg \
  --disable-ffplay

Run make
You may find the resulting ./ffprobe

JuanIrache commented May 17, 2022

Hello. Can I ask why you are disabling libxcb? I am seeing some crashes because of it missing. "Library not loaded: /opt/homebrew/opt/libxcb.1.dylib"

Thank you

SavageCore commented Feb 15, 2023

Hello. Can I ask why you are disabling libxcb? I am seeing some crashes because of it missing. "Library not loaded: /opt/homebrew/opt/libxcb.1.dylib"

Thank you

Fix for SavageCore/node-ffprobe-installer#200 (comment)

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wongyiuhang commented Feb 16, 2023

(Feb 16, 2023) The build configuration step has been replaced with standard build option flags.

The previous way of modifying the ./configure file was a kind of brute force.