CCExtractor · prateekmedia · Sep 6, 2025 · Aug 24, 2025 · Aug 24, 2025 · Aug 24, 2025
diff --git a/docs/COMPILATION.MD b/docs/COMPILATION.MD
@@ -113,7 +113,6 @@ sudo make install
 
 `cmake` also accepts the options:
      `-DWITH_OCR=ON` to enable OCR
-     `-DWITHOUT_RUST=ON` to disable rust.
      `-DWITH_HARDSUBX=ON` to enable burned-in subtitles
 
 ([OPTIONAL] For hardsubx, you also need to set these environment variables correctly according to your machine)
@@ -176,7 +175,6 @@ make
 
 `cmake` also accepts the options:
      `-DWITH_OCR=ON` to enable OCR
-     `-DWITHOUT_RUST=ON` to disable rust.
      `-DWITH_HARDSUBX=ON` to enable burned-in subtitles
 
 #### Standard compilation through Autoconf scripts:

diff --git a/docs/using_cmake_build.txt b/docs/using_cmake_build.txt
@@ -32,8 +32,5 @@ cmake -DWITH_OCR=ON ../src/
 If you want to build CCExtractor with HARDSUBX support
 cmake -DWITH_HARDSUBX=ON ../src/
 
-If you want to build CCExtractor with rust disabled you need to pass
-cmake -DWITHOUT_RUST=ON ../src/
-
 Hint for looking all the things you want to set from outside
 cmake -LAH ../src/
diff --git a/linux/Makefile.am b/linux/Makefile.am
@@ -327,12 +327,7 @@ ccextractor_LDADD += $(TESS_LIB)
 ccextractor_LDADD += $(LEPT_LIB)
 endif
 
-if WITH_RUST
 ccextractor_LDADD += ./rust/@RUST_TARGET_SUBDIR@/libccx_rust.a
-else
-ccextractor_CFLAGS += -DDISABLE_RUST
-ccextractor_CPPFLAGS += -DDISABLE_RUST
-endif
 
 if DEBUG_RELEASE
 CARGO_RELEASE_ARGS=

diff --git a/linux/build b/linux/build
@@ -11,10 +11,6 @@ while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
       RUST_LIB="rust/debug/libccx_rust.a"
       shift
       ;;
-    -without-rust)
-      WITHOUT_RUST=true
-      shift
-      ;;
     -hardsubx)
       HARDSUBX=true
       RUST_FEATURES="--features hardsubx_ocr"
@@ -90,34 +86,29 @@ echo "Running pre-build script..."
 ./pre-build.sh
 echo "Trying to compile..."
 
-if [ "$WITHOUT_RUST" = true ]; then
-    echo "Building without rust files..."
-    BLD_FLAGS="$BLD_FLAGS -DDISABLE_RUST"
-else 
-    BLD_LINKER="$BLD_LINKER ./libccx_rust.a"
-    echo "Checking for cargo..."
-    if ! [ -x "$(command -v cargo)" ]; then
-        echo 'Error: cargo is not installed.' >&2
-        exit 1
-    fi
-
-    rustc_version="$(rustc --version)"
-    semver=( ${rustc_version//./ } )
-    version="${semver[1]}.${semver[2]}.${semver[3]}"
-    MSRV="1.54.0"
-    if [ "$(printf '%s\n' "$MSRV" "$version" | sort -V | head -n1)" = "$MSRV" ]; then 
-        echo "rustc >= MSRV(${MSRV})"
-    else
-        echo "Minimum supported rust version(MSRV) is ${MSRV}, please upgrade rust"
-        exit 1
-    fi 
-
-    echo "Building rust files..."
-    (cd ../src/rust && CARGO_TARGET_DIR=../../linux/rust cargo build $RUST_PROFILE $RUST_FEATURES) || { echo "Failed. " ; exit 1; }
+BLD_LINKER="$BLD_LINKER ./libccx_rust.a"
+echo "Checking for cargo..."
+if ! [ -x "$(command -v cargo)" ]; then
+    echo 'Error: cargo is not installed.' >&2
+    exit 1
+fi
 
-    cp $RUST_LIB ./libccx_rust.a
+rustc_version="$(rustc --version)"
+semver=( ${rustc_version//./ } )
+version="${semver[1]}.${semver[2]}.${semver[3]}"
+MSRV="1.54.0"
+if [ "$(printf '%s\n' "$MSRV" "$version" | sort -V | head -n1)" = "$MSRV" ]; then
+    echo "rustc >= MSRV(${MSRV})"
+else
+    echo "Minimum supported rust version(MSRV) is ${MSRV}, please upgrade rust"
+    exit 1
 fi
 
+echo "Building rust files..."
+(cd ../src/rust && CARGO_TARGET_DIR=../../linux/rust cargo build $RUST_PROFILE $RUST_FEATURES) || { echo "Failed. " ; exit 1; }
+
+cp $RUST_LIB ./libccx_rust.a
+
 echo "Building ccextractor"
 out=$((LC_ALL=C gcc $BLD_FLAGS $BLD_INCLUDE -o ccextractor $BLD_SOURCES $BLD_LINKER)2>&1)
 res=$?

diff --git a/mac/Makefile.am b/mac/Makefile.am
@@ -300,12 +300,8 @@ ccextractor_LDADD += $(TESS_LIB)
 ccextractor_LDADD += $(LEPT_LIB)
 endif
 
-if WITH_RUST
 ccextractor_LDADD += ./rust/@RUST_TARGET_SUBDIR@/libccx_rust.a
-else
-ccextractor_CFLAGS += -DDISABLE_RUST
-ccextractor_CPPFLAGS += -DDISABLE_RUST
-endif
+
 
 if DEBUG_RELEASE
 CARGO_RELEASE_ARGS=

diff --git a/mac/build.command b/mac/build.command
@@ -1,58 +1,183 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 cd `dirname $0`
-BLD_FLAGS="-std=gnu99 -Wno-write-strings -Wno-pointer-sign -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DVERSION_FILE_PRESENT -Dfopen64=fopen -Dopen64=open -Dlseek64=lseek -DFT2_BUILD_LIBRARY -DGPAC_DISABLE_VTT -DGPAC_DISABLE_OD_DUMP -DGPAC_DISABLE_REMOTERY -DNO_GZIP -DDISABLE_RUST"
-[[ $1 = "OCR" ]] && BLD_FLAGS="$BLD_FLAGS -DENABLE_OCR"
+
+RUST_LIB="rust/release/libccx_rust.a"
+RUST_PROFILE="--release"
+RUST_FEATURES=""
+
+# Parse command line arguments
+while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
+  case $1 in
+    OCR)
+      ENABLE_OCR=true
+      shift
+      ;;
+    -debug)
+      DEBUG=true
+      RUST_PROFILE=""
+      RUST_LIB="rust/debug/libccx_rust.a"
+      shift
+      ;;
+    -hardsubx)
+      HARDSUBX=true
+      RUST_FEATURES="--features hardsubx_ocr"
+      shift
+      ;;
+    -*)
+      echo "Unknown option $1"
+      exit 1
+      ;;
+  esac
+done
+
+BLD_FLAGS="-std=gnu99 -Wno-write-strings -Wno-pointer-sign -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DVERSION_FILE_PRESENT -Dfopen64=fopen -Dopen64=open -Dlseek64=lseek -DFT2_BUILD_LIBRARY -DGPAC_DISABLE_VTT -DGPAC_DISABLE_OD_DUMP -DGPAC_DISABLE_REMOTERY -DNO_GZIP"
+
+# Add debug flags if needed
+if [[ "$DEBUG" == "true" ]]; then
+    BLD_FLAGS="$BLD_FLAGS -g -fsanitize=address"
+fi
+
+# Add OCR support if requested
+if [[ "$ENABLE_OCR" == "true" ]]; then
+    BLD_FLAGS="$BLD_FLAGS -DENABLE_OCR"
+fi
+
+# Add hardsubx support if requested
+if [[ "$HARDSUBX" == "true" ]]; then
+    BLD_FLAGS="$BLD_FLAGS -DENABLE_HARDSUBX"
+fi
+
 BLD_INCLUDE="-I../src/ -I../src/lib_ccx -I../src/lib_hash -I../src/thirdparty/libpng -I../src/thirdparty -I../src/thirdparty/zlib -I../src/thirdparty/freetype/include `pkg-config --cflags --silence-errors gpac`"
-[[ $1 = "OCR" ]] && BLD_INCLUDE="$BLD_INCLUDE `pkg-config --cflags --silence-errors tesseract`"
+
+if [[ "$ENABLE_OCR" == "true" ]]; then
+    BLD_INCLUDE="$BLD_INCLUDE `pkg-config --cflags --silence-errors tesseract`"
+fi
+
 SRC_CCX="$(find ../src/lib_ccx -name '*.c')"
 SRC_LIB_HASH="$(find ../src/thirdparty/lib_hash -name '*.c')"
 SRC_LIBPNG="$(find ../src/thirdparty/libpng -name '*.c')"
 SRC_UTF8="../src/thirdparty/utf8proc/utf8proc.c"
 SRC_ZLIB="$(find ../src/thirdparty/zlib -name '*.c')"
 SRC_FREETYPE="../src/thirdparty/freetype/autofit/autofit.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftbase.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftbbox.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftbdf.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftbitmap.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftcid.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftfntfmt.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftfstype.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftgasp.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftglyph.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftgxval.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftinit.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftlcdfil.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftmm.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftotval.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftpatent.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftpfr.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftstroke.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftsynth.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftsystem.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/fttype1.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftwinfnt.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/bdf/bdf.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/bzip2/ftbzip2.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/cache/ftcache.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/cff/cff.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/cid/type1cid.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/gzip/ftgzip.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/lzw/ftlzw.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/pcf/pcf.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/pfr/pfr.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/psaux/psaux.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/pshinter/pshinter.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/psnames/psnames.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/raster/raster.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/sfnt/sfnt.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/smooth/smooth.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/truetype/truetype.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/type1/type1.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/type42/type42.c \
-		../src/thirdparty/freetype/winfonts/winfnt.c"
-BLD_SOURCES="../src/ccextractor.c $SRC_API $SRC_CCX $SRC_LIB_HASH $SRC_LIBPNG $SRC_UTF8 $SRC_ZLIB $SRC_ZVBI $SRC_FREETYPE"
-BLD_LINKER="-lm -liconv -lpthread -ldl `pkg-config --libs --silence-errors tesseract` `pkg-config --libs --silence-errors gpac`"
-[[ $1 = "OCR" ]] && BLD_LINKER="$BLD_LINKER `pkg-config --libs --silence-errors tesseract` `pkg-config --libs --silence-errors lept`"
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftbase.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftbbox.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftbdf.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftbitmap.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftcid.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftfntfmt.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftfstype.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftgasp.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftglyph.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftgxval.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftinit.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftlcdfil.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftmm.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftotval.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftpatent.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftpfr.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftstroke.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftsynth.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftsystem.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/fttype1.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftwinfnt.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/bdf/bdf.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/bzip2/ftbzip2.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/cache/ftcache.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/cff/cff.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/cid/type1cid.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/gzip/ftgzip.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/lzw/ftlzw.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/pcf/pcf.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/pfr/pfr.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/psaux/psaux.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/pshinter/pshinter.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/psnames/psnames.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/raster/raster.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/sfnt/sfnt.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/smooth/smooth.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/truetype/truetype.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/type1/type1.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/type42/type42.c \
+   ../src/thirdparty/freetype/winfonts/winfnt.c"
+
+BLD_SOURCES="../src/ccextractor.c $SRC_CCX $SRC_LIB_HASH $SRC_LIBPNG $SRC_UTF8 $SRC_ZLIB $SRC_FREETYPE"
+
+BLD_LINKER="-lm -liconv -lpthread -ldl `pkg-config --libs --silence-errors gpac`"
+
+if [[ "$ENABLE_OCR" == "true" ]]; then
+    BLD_LINKER="$BLD_LINKER `pkg-config --libs --silence-errors tesseract` `pkg-config --libs --silence-errors lept`"
+fi
+
+if [[ "$HARDSUBX" == "true" ]]; then
+    BLD_LINKER="$BLD_LINKER -lswscale -lavutil -pthread -lavformat -lavcodec -lavfilter"
+fi
 
+echo "Running pre-build script..."
 ./pre-build.sh
-gcc $BLD_FLAGS $BLD_INCLUDE -o ccextractor $BLD_SOURCES $BLD_LINKER
+echo "Trying to compile..."
+
+# Check for cargo
+echo "Checking for cargo..."
+if ! [ -x "$(command -v cargo)" ]; then
+    echo 'Error: cargo is not installed.' >&2
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# Check rust version
+rustc_version="$(rustc --version)"
+semver=( ${rustc_version//./ } )
+version="${semver[1]}.${semver[2]}.${semver[3]}"
+MSRV="1.54.0"
+if [ "$(printf '%s\n' "$MSRV" "$version" | sort -V | head -n1)" = "$MSRV" ]; then
+    echo "rustc >= MSRV(${MSRV})"
+else
+    echo "Minimum supported rust version(MSRV) is ${MSRV}, please upgrade rust"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+echo "Building rust files..."
+(cd ../src/rust && CARGO_TARGET_DIR=../../mac/rust cargo build $RUST_PROFILE $RUST_FEATURES) || { echo "Failed building Rust components." ; exit 1; }
+
+# Copy the Rust library
+cp $RUST_LIB ./libccx_rust.a
+
+# Add Rust library to linker flags
+BLD_LINKER="$BLD_LINKER ./libccx_rust.a"
+
+echo "Building ccextractor"
+out=$((LC_ALL=C gcc $BLD_FLAGS $BLD_INCLUDE -o ccextractor $BLD_SOURCES $BLD_LINKER) 2>&1)
+res=$?
+
+# Handle common error cases
+if [[ $out == *"gcc: command not found"* ]]; then
+    echo "Error: please install gcc or Xcode command line tools"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+if [[ $out == *"curl.h: No such file or directory"* ]]; then
+    echo "Error: please install curl development library"
+    exit 2
+fi
+
+if [[ $out == *"capi.h: No such file or directory"* ]]; then
+    echo "Error: please install tesseract development library"
+    exit 3
+fi
+
+if [[ $out == *"allheaders.h: No such file or directory"* ]]; then
+    echo "Error: please install leptonica development library"
+    exit 4
+fi
+
+if [[ $res -ne 0 ]]; then  # Unknown error
+    echo "Compiled with errors"
+    >&2 echo "$out"
+    exit 5
+fi
+
+if [[ "$out" != "" ]]; then
+    echo "$out"
+    echo "Compilation successful, compiler message shown in previous lines"
+else
+    echo "Compilation successful, no compiler messages."
+fi
diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ include (CTest)
 option (WITH_FFMPEG "Build using FFmpeg demuxer and decoder" OFF)
 option (WITH_OCR "Build with OCR (Optical Character Recognition) feature" OFF)
 option (WITH_HARDSUBX "Build with support for burned-in subtitles" OFF)
-option (WITHOUT_RUST "Build without Rust library" OFF)
 
 # Version number
 set (CCEXTRACTOR_VERSION_MAJOR 0)
@@ -237,12 +236,10 @@ add_executable (ccextractor ${SOURCEFILE} ${FREETYPE_SOURCE} ${UTF8PROC_SOURCE})
 # Build with Rust library
 ########################################################
 
-if (PKG_CONFIG_FOUND AND NOT WITHOUT_RUST)
+if (PKG_CONFIG_FOUND)
   add_subdirectory (rust)
   set (EXTRA_LIBS ${EXTRA_LIBS} ccx_rust)
-else ()
-  set (CMAKE_C_FLAGS "${CMAKE_C_FLAGS} -DDISABLE_RUST")
-endif (PKG_CONFIG_FOUND AND NOT WITHOUT_RUST)
+endif (PKG_CONFIG_FOUND)
 
 
 target_link_libraries (ccextractor ${EXTRA_LIBS})

diff --git a/src/ccextractor.c b/src/ccextractor.c
@@ -418,15 +418,9 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 	// See docs/ccextractor.cnf.sample for more info.
 	parse_configuration(&ccx_options);
 
-#ifndef DISABLE_RUST
 	ccxr_init_basic_logger();
-#endif
 
-#ifndef DISABLE_RUST
 	int compile_ret = ccxr_parse_parameters(argc, argv);
-#else
-	int compile_ret = parse_parameters(&ccx_options, argc, argv);
-#endif
 
 	if (compile_ret == EXIT_NO_INPUT_FILES)
 	{

diff --git a/src/lib_ccx/CMakeLists.txt b/src/lib_ccx/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -87,10 +87,6 @@ if (WITH_HARDSUBX)
     set (CMAKE_C_FLAGS "${CMAKE_C_FLAGS} -DENABLE_HARDSUBX")
 endif (WITH_HARDSUBX)
 
-if (WITHOUT_RUST)
-    set (CMAKE_C_FLAGS "${CMAKE_C_FLAGS} -DDISABLE_RUST")
-endif (WITHOUT_RUST)
-
 file (GLOB HeaderFiles *.h)
 file (WRITE ccx.pc "prefix=${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}\n"
                   "includedir=\${prefix}/include\n"