On Thu, 06 Nov 2025 13:24:46 +0100,
Mike Marcott <mike@marcott.net> wrote:
> 
> Good morning,
>  
> After previously working for the last years through current 7.8 snapshot from around 10/8/2025, a recent update to snapshot OpenBSD 7.8-current has freerdp-2.11.7 failing to connect to multiple win10 boxes withi this error:
>  
> xfreerdp:/usr/local/lib/libfreerdp2.so.3.0: undefined symbol 'avcodec_close'
> ld.so: xfreerdp: lazy binding failed!
> Killed
>  
> The password negotiation works, the typical window pops up briefly then closes with that error.
>  
> OpenBSD 7.8-current (GENERIC.MP) #81: Sat Nov 1 11:07:45 MDT 2025
> deraadt@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP mailto:deraadt@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP
>  
> Anyone else seeing this?  Thank you 
>

This is side effect of switching to ffmpeg8.

Thanks for reporting it.

Upstream fixed it here:
https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/commit/726add2a982bfdf4cffef3cc95395c9a4b49385b

But our version is quite old. So, here a diff which compile testing.

May I ask you to try it?

Index: Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/ports/x11/freerdp/Makefile,v
diff -u -p -r1.73 Makefile
--- Makefile	21 May 2024 08:40:53 -0000	1.73
+++ Makefile	6 Nov 2025 13:58:53 -0000
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 COMMENT =		client for Microsoft RDP (remote desktop protocol)
 DISTNAME =		freerdp-2.11.7
+REVISION =		0
 DPB_PROPERTIES =	parallel
 CATEGORIES =		x11 net
 
Index: patches/patch-channels_tsmf_client_ffmpeg_tsmf_ffmpeg_c
===================================================================
RCS file: patches/patch-channels_tsmf_client_ffmpeg_tsmf_ffmpeg_c
diff -N patches/patch-channels_tsmf_client_ffmpeg_tsmf_ffmpeg_c
--- /dev/null	1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
+++ patches/patch-channels_tsmf_client_ffmpeg_tsmf_ffmpeg_c	6 Nov 2025 13:58:53 -0000
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Index: channels/tsmf/client/ffmpeg/tsmf_ffmpeg.c
+--- channels/tsmf/client/ffmpeg/tsmf_ffmpeg.c.orig
++++ channels/tsmf/client/ffmpeg/tsmf_ffmpeg.c
+@@ -624,11 +624,18 @@ static void tsmf_ffmpeg_free(ITSMFDecoder* decoder)
+ 
+ 	if (mdecoder->codec_context)
+ 	{
++
++#if LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_INT < AV_VERSION_INT(55, 69, 100)
+ 		if (mdecoder->prepared)
+ 			avcodec_close(mdecoder->codec_context);
++#endif
+ 
+ 		free(mdecoder->codec_context->extradata);
++#if LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_INT >= AV_VERSION_INT(55, 69, 100)
++		avcodec_free_context(&mdecoder->codec_context);
++#else
+ 		av_free(mdecoder->codec_context);
++#endif
+ 	}
+ 
+ 	free(decoder);
Index: patches/patch-libfreerdp_codec_h264_ffmpeg_c
===================================================================
RCS file: patches/patch-libfreerdp_codec_h264_ffmpeg_c
diff -N patches/patch-libfreerdp_codec_h264_ffmpeg_c
--- /dev/null	1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
+++ patches/patch-libfreerdp_codec_h264_ffmpeg_c	6 Nov 2025 13:58:53 -0000
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+Index: libfreerdp/codec/h264_ffmpeg.c
+--- libfreerdp/codec/h264_ffmpeg.c.orig
++++ libfreerdp/codec/h264_ffmpeg.c
+@@ -100,10 +100,10 @@ static void libavcodec_destroy_encoder(H264_CONTEXT* h
+ 
+ 	if (sys->codecEncoderContext)
+ 	{
+-		avcodec_close(sys->codecEncoderContext);
+ #if LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_INT >= AV_VERSION_INT(55, 69, 100)
+ 		avcodec_free_context(&sys->codecEncoderContext);
+ #else
++		avcodec_close(sys->codecEncoderContext);
+ 		av_free(sys->codecEncoderContext);
+ #endif
+ 	}


-- 
wbr, Kirill