[gst-devel] First Plugin - Compiling and installation

[Alex Ugarte]

Hi!
I had this problem and  it was because gstreamer looked for plugins in
/usr/lib/gstreamer/... and mine was instaled in /lib/gstreamer/... (or
something like that).
Try using the --prefix=/usr option when configuring.

There are a copule of arguments for gst-inspect and gst-launch that can be
usefull too:
*--gst-plugin-path=PATH* Add directories separated with ':' to the plugin
search path*--gst-plugin-load=PLUGINS* Preload plugins specified in a
comma-separated list. Another way to specify plugins to preload is to use
the environment variable GST_PLUGIN_PATHWith these, you don't even have to
install the plugin.

I hope it helps


On 3/7/08, Ionut Dediu <deionut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to get started with GStreamer plugin devel. I wrote a basic
> plugin, based on the gst-template plugin. I compiled and installed it with
> autogen.sh make and make install from the top directory. All steps seem to
> be successful. However I want to inspect it using gst-inspect mypluginname,
> but it gives me the following error: No such element or plugin
> 'mypluginname'... I have also looked in the registry file under
> ~/.gstreamer-0.10/registry.i486.xml to see if this file was modified to
> include my plugin, but it wasn't. So what are the necessary steps to
> correctly build and install a "Hello World" plugin? What does installing a
> plugin mean? Will its library be copied to a certain location and/or the
> plugin has to be included in the rtegistry xml file? Needles to say the
> Plugin Writer's Guide fails to mention anything about compling and
> installing a plugin.
>
> Thanks,
> Ionut
>
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