[gst-devel] How-to compile a plugin?

[El Piraña]

Finally i get to compile this after a problem with liboil :-D

Well, i have desinstalled the gstreamer-sdl package to ensure that i'm
using my compiled-ones, and i have tinkered a little the sdl plugin to
have a new sub-plugin, that is my own sdlsurfaceplugin. I have
searched on the ./configure and other files and compiled all once to
have that better integred, but i think is not necesary. Since that, i
have only make

cd <sources>/ext/sdl/
make install

and it automatically compile my (modified) sdl plugin with the
sdlsurfacesink (at this moment, a copy of sdlvideosink with renamed
identifiers and some printf to know what is doing at each moment until
i understand how i must to modify it) and install it in a
non-package-version folder at /usr/local/lib/gstreamer-0.10.

At make install advice, since that is not the ubuntu gstreamer
directory i should use global vars and so, but it's a little messy and
i didn't get no results, so i have made a little trick: since i
desinstalled the original gstreamer-sdl package, i have make links (ln
-s) from the original location (/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10) to my new
(modified) ones at /usr/local/lib/gstreamer-0.10... and it works :-D
Now i can be able to tinker with the sdl plugin and experiment to
create my new one :-) I hope i can have it soon if i can have some
time and no too much problems with the sdl surface video overlay...
:-D

2009/4/8 El Piraña <piranna at gmail.com>:
> Haha! Thanks for your answer!!! :-D
>
> The first tip is really interesting, not what i was looking for, but
> it could be useful to my company (we are using GStreamer in our
> project and they were who showed me how wonderful is... :-) ).
>
> But in fact, the second one is more what i was looking since i would
> like to share the plugin later, so it's a good idea to have it
> integrated :-) I'll get the gst-plugins-bad source package and i'll
> start to experiment with that :-)
>
> In any case, it's true that it was my fault to spend 5 days looking
> for it before ask for it, but i think it could be a good idea to have
> that tips somewhere in the documentation (In the FAQ? In the next
> version of the plugin manual?), or have the option to compile and
> register individual plugins :-)
>
> Thanks for all in any case!!!! :-D
>
> 2009/4/8 LRN <lrn1986 at gmail.com>:
>> El Piraña wrote:
>>> So i'm asking about:
>>>
>>> 1º How i can be able to compile the plugin? GCC command line,
>>> makefile, developer tools... anything?
>>> 2ª How i can be able to notify GStreamer that i have this
>>> little-cool-&-cute plugin and i want to use it? :-P
>>>
>> There are two options, i think.
>>
>> 1) read that -
>> http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/manual/html/section-data-manager.html
>> This way you can write a gstreamer element as part of your code and hook
>> it up to GStreamer at runtime
>>
>> 2) Just pick gst-plugins-bad source tree, create a new subdirectiry in
>> /ext,copy a makefile.am from /ext/sdl and adjust it accordingly.
>> Although you will not be able to build *just* that plugin, unless you do
>> cd /ext/yourplugindir before calling make. But at least your plugin will
>> be properly integrated in -bad source tree :)
>>
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