[Freeswitch-users] Gist repo to package mod_av.so on CentOS 7 announcement

[Mike Jerris]

There is no reason to do all that just to build a package for mod_av.  You can use the source repo and a few make commands off the regular makefiles to build just that module.

> On Jun 12, 2020, at 9:05 PM, Richard Chan <shihping.chan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello list,
> 
> Background: my most desired module for CentOS 7 is mod_av.so
> 
> 1. I am announcing a gist-repo, for doing an out-of-repo package for mod_av.so for CentOS 7, based on the official freeswitch-devel.
> 
> 2. mod_av.so is not packaged as CentOS 7 does not have ffmpeg. You need to wrangle your own  ffmpeg-devel, e.g. from RPMFusion
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> 3. With ffmpeg-devel installed and this gist repo, you can package mod_av.so without rebuilding the gigantic FreeSWITCH src.rpm.
> 
> Essentially, all the libtool (gcc, ld) statements for mod_av.so have been extracted from a full build and put inside this Makefile. The compiler and linker flags are consistent with those from the FreeSWITCH spec file.
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> 4. IMPORTANT: this gist repo does not distribute source. You must still obtain avcodec.c  avformat.c  mod_av.c  mod_av.h from the tarball or src.rpm.
> 
> All comments welcome.
> 
> Cheers
> SP
>