[gst-devel] gstreamer in an embedded environment

[Dennis Smit]

> Second is the size of gstreamer. By my calculations gstreamer requires:
> libgst  219K
> libglib 166K
> libgtk  137K
> libxml  386K
> 
> I know there is working going on to remove the dependence on libgtk and
> all the X dependencies and that will help a lot. To further reduce the
> code size I am thinking about removing all XML functionality (and
> therefore libxml) and stripping out portions of glib that aren't used by
> libgst. Any other ideas?
 
> Thanks.

I think it is doubtfull that moving from Gtkobject to Gobject is
reducing size.. it is not that gstreamer needs X it is that gtkobject
needs for actually just nothing ..