[gst-devel] static plugin

[Christophe Dehais]

Hello,

First what I wanted to do worked, I'm just trying to better understand how
gstreamer works.

I was trying to figure out the best way to organise my code for an
application and a static plugin (not compiled as .so)

I used the plugin template to generate gstmyplugin.[ch] and I just replaced
the GST_PLUGIN_DEFINE by
the GST_PLUGIN_DEFINE_STATIC in gstmyplugin.c.

Looking at the definition of the GST_PLUGIN_DEFINE_STATIC macro, it creates
a function:
_gst_plugin_static_init__my_plugin_init ()
that simply fills a GstPluginDesc structure and then call
_gst_plugin_register_static ().

So my question is: when is this function called when I execute my
application ? I had nothing to change to the app code, just had it linked
with the produced gstmyplugin.o and gstreamer is able to find my custom
plugin (gst_factory_make(
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