ffmpeg/libav Linking issue in Windows

Question

I have cross compiled ffmpeg and libav from Linux to Windows (mingw32). So, I've got my .a files and ready to be used for linking in my MSVC2010 project. The thing is that I am getting linking errors and I don't understand why:

1>RTSPCapture.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _avformat_free_context referenced in function "public: int __thiscall Imagsa::RTSPCapture::dumpSync(class std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> > const &,class std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> > const &,class std::basic_stringstream<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> > &,double *,class std::vector<class Imagsa::MjpegFrame,class std::allocator<class Imagsa::MjpegFrame> > &)" (?dumpSync@RTSPCapture@Imagsa@@QAEHABV?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@0AAV?$basic_stringstream@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@4@PANAAV?$vector@VMjpegFrame@Imagsa@@V?$allocator@VMjpegFrame@Imagsa@@@std@@@4@@Z)
1>RTSPCapture.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _avio_close referenced in function "public: int __thiscall Imagsa::RTSPCapture::dumpSync(class std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> > const &,class std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> > const &,class std::basic_stringstream<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> > &,double *,class std::vector<class Imagsa::MjpegFrame,class std::allocator<class Imagsa::MjpegFrame> > &)" (?dumpSync@RTSPCapture@Imagsa@@QAEHABV?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@0AAV?$basic_stringstream@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@4@PANAAV?$vector@VMjpegFrame@Imagsa@@V?$allocator@VMjpegFrame@Imagsa@@@std@@@4@@Z)
1>RTSPCapture.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _avcodec_close referenced in function "public: int __thiscall Imagsa::RTSPCapture::dumpSync(class std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> > const &,class std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> > const &,class std::basic_stringstream<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> > &,double *,class std::vector<class Imagsa::MjpegFrame,class std::allocator<class Imagsa::MjpegFrame> > &)" (?dumpSync@RTSPCapture@Imagsa@@QAEHABV?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@0AAV?$basic_stringstream@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@4@PANAAV?$vector@VMjpegFrame@Imagsa@@V?$allocator@VMjpegFrame@Imagsa@@@std@@@4@@Z)

Does anybody know what could happen?

Answer 1

Finally I realized that Mingw compiled libs could not be linked from a VS2010 native application.

Answer 2

You must use C style name mangling when including libav* headers.

extern "C"
{
#include <libavcodec/avcodec.h>
#include <libavcodec/avcodec.h>
...
}