[gst-devel] trying to build on windows ...

[Vincent Torri]

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 11:21 +0200, Sébastien Moutte wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm trying to build cvs version of gstreamer on windows. I've gotten the
> > source using :
> > cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs at anoncvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/gstreamer co gstreamer
> >
> > The problem is that some source files are missing like gst/gstcpu.c,
> > gst/gstdata.c ....
> > is there anything to do to get these source files with cvs ?
>
> In 0.9, nobody has updated the windows build files.  files that are
> missing from the build really are gone, never to return.  So the project
> files need to be updated to reflect the current state.
>
> It'd be nice if someone wrote an automake->visual studio build
> transformer, but until that time, we need someone who will give the
> windows build the necessary updates each step along the way...

Why not using msys/mingw ? the autofoo exists. You mainly have to update
configure.ac and some Makefile.am. It should be less work, imho.

Vincent Torri