[gst-devel] BRANCH-GOBJECT1 merged to HEAD!

[Erik Walthinsen]

*** WARNING!: see below for a new requirement for building out of CVS! ***

I've just completed the merge of BRANCH-GOBJECT1 into HEAD, which means we
now have the ability to compile without any X dependencies whatsoever.
The side-effect of this at the moment is that *none* of the X-related
programs work, because Gtk+-2.0 and GNOME-2.0 are less ready than glib-2.0
is.  Porting/back-shimming of this will probably happen on HEAD, though
if someone is willing to tackle the problem all at once, it's probably
better to do a branch for it (called GNOME2-1 ?).

Note that all GStreamer code is now based on GObject, which means some
slight coding changes.  My next email to the list will detail those minor
changes.  The ability to build all this GObject-based code on top of
Gtk+-1.2 is supplied by gst/gobject2gtk.[ch], which is about 600 lines of
proprocessor magic and stub functions.  Funny thing is, a certain GNOME
person told me it couldn't be done <g>  Now that I've done it, he just
calls me 'insane' and leaves it at that...  (who am I to argue??)

If you want to play around with building on GObject, you'll need to give
the --enable-glib2 flag to autogen.sh, which will look for glib-2.0.
Note that this check is done with pkg-config, which means that you'll need
pkg-config to run autogen.sh even if you're not using glib2, because of
the m4 macros.  Of course, in the long run, the m4 macro issue is exactly
what pkg-config is designed to solve, so this should be the last new thing
you *have* to have in order to run autogen.sh.

*****
REPEAT: you *MUST* have pkg-config installed in order to run autogen.sh to
build from CVS, at this time.
*****

One option we should look into is placing the PKG_CHECK_MODULES macro into
the appropriate ac*.m4 file within CVS, though I'd rather not have to do
that.  Another option would be to extend autogen.sh with more conditional
support while extracting configure.base into the appropriate .ac or .in
file.

And lastly, please, everyone thoroughly test the new shim-built stuff and
report any regressions to this list!

TTYL,
    Omega

      Erik Walthinsen <omega at temple-baptist.com> - System Administrator
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