Deploy option for systems without ffmpeg library installed beforehand

[acgourley]

I'm working on deploying this inside of a Google Cloud Function and in this context you cannot install the libav/ffmpeg libs on the system first.

In my fork I have node-pre-gyp working as a method for distributing the compiled libs, however these libs still dynamically link against the system library instead of bundling in the system libraries. Do you know if there is a way to use node-gyp to pull in these system libs into a monolithic library, or to copy them into the distribution some other way?

[tmarrinan]

In binding.gyp, you can specify a path to an actual static library instead of using -l (which will indicate dynamic link library):
Current:

'libraries': [
    "-lavcodec",
    "-lavformat",
    ...
]

Modify:

'libraries': [
    "/usr/local/lib/libavcodec.a",
    "/usr/local/lib/libavformat.a",
    ...
]