<div class="gmail_quote">2012/10/5 cowwoc <<a href="mailto:cowwoc@bbs.darktech.org" target="_blank">cowwoc@bbs.darktech.org</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> What's the impact of static linking followed by dynamic linking as you mentioned? I assume from a legal/LGPL point of view, it's as if we're dynamically linking our application with GStreamer, correct? </blockquote><div> </div><div> Another advantage of this method is that we allow application developers to include only the plugins required by the application, instead of providing a single blob with *everything*, reducing considerably the size of the shared library. Andoni </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Thanks, Gili<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> On 05/10/2012 11:29 AM, Sebastian Dröge wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> On Fr, 2012-10-05 at 11:05 -0400, cowwoc wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Okay, I'll bite :) 1. Is there any reason that your distribution only contains static library files? Do you plan on supporting *both* static and dynamic linking by November? </blockquote> These static libraries are linked into one large dynamic library that is then used by the Android application. This was done because Android has a limitation of 64 shared libraries per process, and you can easily hit that with all the libraries GStreamer and the plugins depend upon and the number of plugins. Dynamic linking is nonetheless possible and there will also be a zip/tarball with all the dynamic libraries and also the GStreamer tools like gst-launch, etc. This is mostly for debugging or if you want to do something really special. But for applications the supported way of using GStreamer on Android will be the static linking route that is also explained in the docs at <a href="http://docs.gstreamer.com" target="_blank">docs.gstreamer.com</a> (login as the test user to see them). Using this static linking is btw very convenient, we made as easy as possible. See this for more details: <a href="http://docs.gstreamer.com/display/GstSDK/Installing+for+Android" target="_blank">http://docs.gstreamer.com/display/GstSDK/Installing+for+Android</a> +development <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> 1. Can you please add build instructions to the Android page? We should be able to build the SDK from source. </blockquote> It's done the same way as for the other platforms, you only additionally need to have the Android SDK and NDK and tell the build system where to find it. This is not documented yet though. Basically you need to get cerbero from <a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer-sdk/cerbero/" target="_blank">http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer-sdk/cerbero/</a> and use the config/cross-android.cbc configuration file. You can find some more information on cerbero in general in the build from source section on <a href="http://docs.gstreamer.com/display/GstSDK/Installing+on" target="_blank">http://docs.gstreamer.com/display/GstSDK/Installing+on</a> +Linux#InstallingonLinux-buildfromsource More or less the same applies for Android too. This also provides an easy way for you to integrate other libraries and software to be used in your application. <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> 1. Do you plan on merging these changes into GStreamer's main repository, and main branch? I ask because all other platforms have been merged into GStreamer's main branch and it's not clear whether you plan on merging these in the future. </blockquote> Yes, all changes will be merged back upstream, including the new plugins. </blockquote> </div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> _______________________________________________ gstreamer-android mailing list <a href="mailto:gstreamer-android@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">gstreamer-android@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-android" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-android</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Andoni Morales Alastruey LongoMatch:The Digital Coach <a href="http://www.longomatch.ylatuya.es">http://www.longomatch.ylatuya.es</a>