[gst-devel] Freshly baked Windows binaries of HEAD available

[Andoni Morales]

Hi

One week ago I tested the OABuild binaries and I found some backward
incompabilities with GLib. I'm actually working on a GTK app using gstreamer
on windows, and the glib version provided by the gtk-sharp installer isn't
compatible with the one used to compile gstreamer  with the OABuild tools (I
don't really know why, but there is an error with gsignal). So what I did,
is to compile GStreamer using the OABuild tools against the older glib
version and all went well.
I tried to replace my installed glib version with the one used to link the
OABuild binaries, but the GTK part failed. And with the glib version
provided by GTK, the gstreamer part failed (always with a gsignal error
when sending a signal).
What I mean is: If you want to provide some GStreamer binaries, try to link
it against the glib version actually provided by the windows gtk installers
as many of us will use GStreamer in combination with GTK. If you don't do
this, your gstreamer binaries will work well on a standalone app, but they
won't work at all with any previous installation.
I dont know if I was clear enough because my english is very poor. Want I
wanted to let clear is that there could be some conflicts with GLib that you
should take in consideration. I  think the GLib version used to link the
GStreamer binaries si too cooler for windows and won't be compatible with
any other previous installation as the one provided by the windows gtk
installer.

Regards, Andoni Morales

2008/9/12 Andres Colubri <andres.colubri at gmail.com>

> Using the great work of Ole Andre as the starting point, I created a new
> set of simplified, up-to-date GStreamer installers for Windows (one for
> the binaries and libs, and another for development files). You can grab
> them from here:
>
>
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=225389&package_id=272648&release_id=625609
>
> Please note that this is an initial, "preview" release so people could
> try it out and report their success (or failure). I have myself used it
> successfully on both Windows XP professional SP3 and Vista SP1 business
> edition.
>
> It includes ffmpeg libraries compiled from svn source grabbed a few days
> ago.
>
> For those interested in the steps I followed to create these installers,
> I have put up this post on my blog:
>
> http://codeanticode.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/the-gstreamer-adventure-part-i-creating-a-windows-installer/
>
> Andres
>
> Ole Andre Vadla Ravnås wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I just whipped together some binaries of GStreamer HEAD built against
> msvcrt.dll (the ReleaseWdkCrt configuration).
> >
> > The snapshots can be found here:
> > http://people.collabora.co.uk/~oleavr/OABuild/snapshots/<http://people.collabora.co.uk/%7Eoleavr/OABuild/snapshots/>
> >
> > 33e44c77f4b8f413db6ffc5e47f2a8ab OABuild-20080904-glib-dbg.exe
> > 0f717766f27fab1b4905a28123a195cc OABuild-20080904-glib-dev.exe
> > 708f0ca2d3b5934c2d1ad91ea3713e2e OABuild-20080904-glib.exe
> > ffaff7b80693d76f1476c6ab809bbe75 OABuild-20080904-gstreamer-dbg.exe
> > c02d961fd4f80900fa338a3049731b8b OABuild-20080904-gstreamer-dev.exe
> > 8e29f516806bddc46a5435898e3cf204 OABuild-20080904-gstreamer.exe
> >
> > Please note that this was done in a hurry, so the naming scheme, which
> files go where, etc., will likely change in the future. Extract
> OABuild-20080904-glib.exe and OABuild-20080904-gstreamer.exe to get a pure
> runtime installation (with gst-inspect and gst-launch, likely to be split
> out in the future), dbg for debug symbols (.pdb files), and dev for
> development headers, .lib files and stuff like that.
> >
> > Also note that I just realized that the binaries from gst-plugins-good
> are off by one micro version as I forgot to sync
> GstPluginsGoodVersion.vsprops against configure.ac... This is on my TODO
> list of things to automate, and will obviously be fixed in future snapshots.
> >
> > Lastly, if someone feels like contributing automated .msi/.msm packaging
> for future snapshots then that would be awesome! :)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Ole André
> >
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