[gst-devel] Re: Native Win32 build of GStreamer 0.8.1

[Steve Lhomme]

Ronald Bultje wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 7 May 2004, Marc VanDaele wrote:
> 
>>Given the posts below, I would expect this to be (almost?) possible.
>>I'm working under Windows2000 and using MSVC C++ .Net.
>>I would like to use this as a debugger but I have no problems in using
>>eg cygwin to build the application.
> 
> 
> The win32 work is ongoing. It's almost there, but not just yet.
> Especially, we haven't had a win32/MSVC-compatible release yet. For now,
> use Linux.
> 
> For the Matroska people: this is not a discouragement! This is rather just
> the reality. In a month, I'm sure it'll work out of the box. Our latest
> release just doesn't yet.
> 
> And if it works, please write some basic documentation to answer the
> questions rasied here; I'm sure we'll get lots of those. We'll happily add
> those to our FAQ on the website.

Humm... All the patches I've submited already include /win32/README.txt 
which explains how to build the software with MSVC, including 
dependencies...