[gst-devel] Re: [Matroska-devel] Why porting Gstreamer to Windows would hurt Redmond .....

[Benjamin Otte]

Quoting Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas at apestaart.org>:

> And on that note - could you please let us know what else is causing
> problems on Windows now that the debugging problem has been resolved
> correctly (to the best of my knowledge, since I cannot test on Windows)
> ?
> 
According to David, Windows doesn't allow DLLs with undefined symbols. This 
means that our current linking mechanism (not linking to the core lib and 
loading dependencies via gst_plugin_load) just doesn't work in Windows.

AFAICS, the only way to solve that would be a redesign of the plugin linking, 
loading and initialization mechanism that would most likely not be 
implementable with API compat without major headaches.

Benjamin