[gst-devel] Static linking of GST to application

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 10:10 +0530, Ashok Bhat wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am trying to statically link gst with my application. I am using
> gstreamer-0.10.11 on Fedora core 5. I tried looking for some doc/page
> that explained how to statically link. I could not find any. So tried
> somethings on my own.
>  
> 1. When I built gst in static mode (./configure --disable-shared
> --enable-static), even the basic plugins like fakesrc were not
> registered (gst-inspect shows only bin and pipeline)
> 2. When I built gst in default mode(./configure), basic plugins were
> added to registry. However when I linked my simple test
> file(fakesrc->fakesink) to libgstreamer.0.10.a (static library I
> guess),  lots of CRITICAL debug messages are being printed on screen.
>  
> As you can see, I am unable to proceed any further. 
>  
> How do I statically link gst to my app? Is there any document/mail
> that I look into? 

Static linking has been unsupported for a while now, so you will
actually have to do hacking if you want to get this to work.

I personally am in favor of making it possible, but some developers are
resistant to it.

Thomas

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