[gst-devel] Building boilerplate plugin on ubuntu hardy

[Stefan Kost]

Michael Schwendt schrieb:
> On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:19:10 +0900, Jon Burgess wrote:
>
>   
>> Ok cheers - I had tried changing to GstPlugin and that was ok - but I was
>> hesitant to do this because I assumed the generated boilerplate code is
>> correct, and I had done something wrong. 
>>     
>
> I don't think so. IMO, the "make_element" script incorrectly substitutes
> the string "Plugin" with your custom base name here, as the source base
> name for the gstplugin.* template code is "plugin". That replaces
> the GstPlugin type by accident.
>   
Fixed in cvs. Thanks for spotting.

Stefan

>   
>> So, does this boilerplate generation stuff need updating?
>>     
>
> IMO yes.
>
>   
>> Does anyone know if many people use it?
>>
>>     
> I would think it's the first place to start for
>   
>> anyone wanting to write their own plugin...
>>     
>
> I would think so, too, because it seems reasonable to use it for a quick
> start. I've used it myself just 1-2 weeks ago for my GStreamer plugin at
> http://xmms-fc.sf.net -- sure, I've jumped around in the API html docs
> quite a lot to add/change several things, but the guide and make_element
> have helped a lot.
>
>   
>> One more thing - it wasn't clear to me, as a newbie to gstreamer and gtk,
>> exactly how I was to edit Makefile.am in order to build a shared object with
>> my plugin.  I did see either in INSTALL or somewhere like that, that I had
>> to edit it, but just not how (but maybe it is obvious to someone with more
>> experience).
>>     
>
> It builds a shared library by default (with libtool), but hides it in
> ".libs" till you run "make install".
>
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