[gst-devel] Building plugins

[Sojan James]

Hi,
Thanks
    Yea, I was a little impatient,  trying to do stuff without fully
understanding the GLib/GObject and build procedure..Am wiser now. ;-)
Well, I have a dumb plugin which loads....a beginning, now I'm ready to
get my hands dirty.

Thanks,
Sojan.


On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:

> Hi Sojan,
>
> we should work on a template auto*'d dir for creating external plugins to
> help out developers.
>
> In the meantime, you're probably best off plonking your plugin in a dir in
> your copy of gst-plugins.
>
> Here's (off the top of my head) the steps involved :
> a) decide if it's a stand-alone plugin or depending on an external lib
> b) if the first, make a dir in gst-plugins/gst for it, otherwise in
>    gst-plugins/ext
> c) if it's in gst, you have it easy
>    * copy a Makefile.am from another dir in gst
>    * change source and header files to match yours
>    * edit the top-level configure.ac and add your dir name to
> GST_PLUGINS_ALL
>    * add a line in the last AC_CONFIG_FILES bit for your Makefile
>
>    basically you can just copy stuff as done by other plugins
> d) if it's in ext, it's a bit harder.  I have to check up, but if you want
>    you can try and mimic what other libs do, depending on the specifics of
>    the lib.
>
> Thomas
>
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