From ea541685e86fd4ac462f4c114d323f1370354c0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Doron Behar <doron.behar@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 13:26:15 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] musescore: make it find ffmpeg automatically (video export)

Fixes #529852.
---
 pkgs/by-name/mu/musescore/package.nix | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/mu/musescore/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/mu/musescore/package.nix
index 0deadb2f1cfe..8bf887c07d20 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/mu/musescore/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/mu/musescore/package.nix
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
   # buildInputs
   alsa-lib,
   alsa-plugins,
+  ffmpeg,
   flac,
   freetype,
   kdePackages,
@@ -181,6 +182,15 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
     kdePackages'.qtwayland
   ];
 
+  # Put the default, `$prefix/lib` directory to look for ffmpeg shared objects,
+  # Nixpkgs' provided ffmpeg, for both MacOS & Linux. Note that upstream uses
+  # the /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu location for any Linux (e.g aarch64 too).
+  preConfigure = ''
+    substituteInPlace src/framework/media/internal/ffmpegutils.cpp \
+      --replace-fail "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu" "${lib.getLib ffmpeg}/lib" \
+      --replace-fail "/opt/homebrew/lib" "${lib.getLib ffmpeg}/lib" \
+  '';
+
   strictDeps = true;
   __structuredAttrs = true;