[Bug 797284] New: Cerbero Windows builds have unusable backtraces

[GStreamer (GNOME Bugzilla)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797284

            Bug ID: 797284
           Summary: Cerbero Windows builds have unusable backtraces
    Classification: Platform
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: git master
                OS: Windows
            Status: NEW
          Severity: blocker
          Priority: Normal
         Component: cerbero
          Assignee: gstreamer-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: nirbheek.chauhan at gmail.com
        QA Contact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
     GNOME version: ---

Since gstreamer core is built with Meson + MinGW, libffi is built with
Autotools + MinGW, and Glib is built with Meson + MSVC, neither gdb nor Visual
Studio can yield usable backtraces.

This is a regression from 1.14 where at least you could get usable backtraces
with gdb.

The fix is to do one of the following:

* Move gstreamer-1.0, gst-*-1.0 and libffi to Meson + MSVC

or 

* Move all Meson + MSVC recipes to Meson + MinGW. As of this writing, that's:
proxy-libintl, zlib, glib, glib-networking, pango, fribidi, json-glib.

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