[gst-devel] Re: Native Win32 build of GStreamer 0.8.1

[Marc VanDaele]

Hello all,

I'm a complete Linux newbie but I do have a lot of streaming experience.
I've been developing applications, components and part of the framework
of TSSA (Trimedia Software Streaming Architecture) which runs on Philips
Trimedia/Nexperia processors, mainly under psos.

We do anticipate building products using Linux in the near future so 
I would like to get a deeper understanding of gstreamer.
I'm currently going through the documentation but I would love to step
through a dummy application (eg disk_source - disk_sink) to get acquainted
with the framework.

Given the posts below, I would expect this to be (almost?) possible.
I'm working under Windows2000 and using MSVC C++ .Net.
I would like to use this as a debugger but I have no problems in using 
eg cygwin to build the application.

However, since I have no Linux expertise, I have no clue to how to 
build such a gstreamer application.  Is somebody willing to help me out?
I guess I need to 
1. retrieve gstreamer from cvs; I guess I need to install eg WinCvs but then
I'm lost
2. retrieve all libs on which gstreamer depends 
	a. glib from http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/
	b. gobject from ?
	c. others?
3. cygwin from http://www.cygwin.com/
4. what is msys? something similar as cygwin?
5. I need to build it
	a. can I use the command below to build glib and the other libs?

I do have some questions already though
1. why do you provide so many convenience functions in the interfaces? 
IMO, it clutters up the interface.  I'm always insisting on defining 
primitive interfaces (unless there is a performance issue) and I'm
wondering what your rationale is for these convenience functions like
- gst_element_factory_make
- GST_CAPS_NEW
- gst_element_link_many
2. Why is Gnome opposed to using C++


Thanks in advance,

Marc 

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Marc Van Daele, Software Architect, +32 11 30 24 63

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Schleef [mailto:ds at schleef.org]
> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 10:53 PM
> To: Steve Lhomme
> Cc: gstreamer-devel at lists.sourceforge.net; Christian HJ Wiesner
> Subject: Re: [gst-devel] Re: Native Win32 build of GStreamer 0.8.1
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 10:40:15PM +0200, Steve Lhomme wrote:
> > Also it would be better IMO to be consistent with GLib/GTK. 
> And they 
> > don't use msys.
> 
> Uh, yeah they do.  'tar -xzvf glib-2.4.0.tar.gz ; cd glib-2.4.0 ;
> ./configure ; make ; make install'
> 
> The great thing about MSYS is that it works _exactly_ like on a
> full POSIX system.  And these days, there's not much to support,
> since all the work is perfomed in recent versions of libtool.
> 
> 
> 
> dave...
> 
> 
> 
> 
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