MPplayer links to libEGL.so by default without an option to prevent it

[Artem S. Tashkinov]

For unknown reasons mplayer's build system links the resulting mplayer binary to the libEGL.so.1 library without any ./configure option to prevent it.

Please remove this dependency (last time I checked mplayer doesn't use EGL at all) or make it configurable.

[compn]

without a configure log or make log we cant verify this happens.
what OS ?

are you sure you arent compiling against opengl and there is some EGL lib/header on your system getting included?

[Artem S. Tashkinov]

It links with OpenGL here and that's OK with me.

However I cannot understand why it needs to link to EGL which is useless for mplayer.

[Artem S. Tashkinov]

Various build logs

[compn]

sorry for late reply, it looks like mplayer can use egl_x11 which is what EGL lib is getting included.

Result is: yes (backends: x11 egl_x11 sdl)

probably disable that egl_x11 thing to disable this.

and yes, android egl support was added in 2013
​http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-cvslog/2013-March/045106.html

[Artem S. Tashkinov]

Can you please add a configure option to disable libEGL linking?

Under X11 it makes no sense anyways (OpenGL is available).

[reimar]

OpenGL isn't available (except software emulation) on many ARM boards for example, thus EGL combined with GLES is required.
While adding a configure option would be possible I'm not particularly motivated to add it unless you can give a good reason why it is a problem and why you can't just uninstall libEGL or at least its headers.

[Artem S. Tashkinov]

Do as you please.

My use case is pretty simple. libEGL is installed by binary NVIDIA drivers and when you uninstall them, mplayer stops working. That's not really nice, but I can live with that.