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How to get latest release on Ubuntu 20.04 focal

Asked by Hunny Puppy

I need to cross compile a program for Windows using Ubuntu and Mingw which depends on ffmpeg, libavcodec and libavformat. I need to use Ubuntu focal so I'm wondering 2 things
1. How do I get the latest packages (6.1.1) for Ubuntu focal since they aren't available in the apt package manager
2. How do I get the ffmpeg .pc and .o/.a files to cross compile using mingw ? Would these be a windows build or ubuntu files I'll need to link using mingw-w64?

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

Ubuntu is no rolling release, so Ubuntu focal will most probably not receive a higher version of ffmpeg in the official Ubuntu repositories. Higher versions of ffmpeg come only with newer Ubuntu releases. Eventually you can find a PPA that provides a higher version for focal.

If you want to compile programs for Linux that use ffmpeg routines, then you usually must install the appropriate .*-dev packages, in your case maybe libavcodec-dev, libavdevice-dev, libavfilter-dev, libavformat-dev, libavresample-dev, libavutil-dev, libpostproc-dev, libswresample-dev, libswscale-dev
I have no knowledge what you have to do when cross-compiling with mingw-w64. Maybe you better try support pages for mingw-w64 or ffmpeg

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