Thanks! Learning about the PDB was worth the question at the very least! I
know the difference between a library and an include but why that knowledge
didn't make it to my fingers is a complete mystery. Sometimes it just takes
a different pair of eyes. I'm on the track again now ...

Bill W

On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 1:05 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser <
f...@snaggledworks.com> wrote:

> On 5/30/16 10:32 AM, Bill Waggoner wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to build OpenCV 3.0 and it wants libavformat.h from either
>> ffmpeg or libav. I have ffmpeg installed but there doesn't seem to be a
>> -dev version and I tried installing libavformat56 and libavformat57 -dev
>> version but neither one installs any libavformat.h. Which was a little
>> unexpected.
>>
>> I see that there are several libav libraries in the fink packages. Is
>> there
>> a way, without installing them all, which one if any will provide the
>> libavformat components?
>>
>
> There's no 'libavformat.h'. The ffmpeg header is 'avformat.h', which is
> provided by any of the libavformat*-dev packages.
>
> Also, I have OpenCV 3.1 in my experimental if you want to test it.
>
> http://cvs.snaggledworks.com/viewvc.cgi/fink/10.7/main/finkinfo/graphics/
>
> The PDB helps you search which package provides which installed file:
> http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/filefind.php
>
> Locally, you can use 'dpkg-dec -c <pkg_ver-rev.deb>' to list the contents
> of a deb archive (even if not installed).
>
> Hanspeter
>
>
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