Build Independent ffprobe on macOS

BUILD_FFPROBE.md

Prerequisite

1. Install make

brew install make

Build

1. git clone FFmpeg/FFmpeg

git clone https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg.git

2. git checkout the desire version

git checkout release/5.1

3. Run configure command on the Terminal

./configure \
  --enable-static \
  --pkg-config-flags=--static \
  --disable-ffmpeg \
  --disable-ffplay

4. Run make
5. You may find the resulting ./ffprobe

Hello. Can I ask why you are disabling libxcb? I am seeing some crashes because of it missing. "Library not loaded: /opt/homebrew/opt/libxcb.1.dylib"

Thank you

Hello. Can I ask why you are disabling libxcb? I am seeing some crashes because of it missing. "Library not loaded: /opt/homebrew/opt/libxcb.1.dylib"

Thank you

Fix for SavageCore/node-ffprobe-installer#200 (comment)

(Feb 16, 2023) The build configuration step has been replaced with standard build option flags.

The previous way of modifying the ./configure file was a kind of brute force.