[gst-devel] GStreamer on android [Fwd: Re: GIT repositories]

[Prajnashi S]

Hi, all
After everything is stable, I think merge everything back to up stream is
better.

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Edward Hervey <bilboed at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 20:57 +0100, Farkas Levente wrote:
> > Edward Hervey wrote:
> > > I thought I'd also send this mail out for anybody interested in
> building
> > > GStreamer on android easily with git repositories.
> > >
> > >   These repositories only contain, so far, the patches that were on the
> > > google groups site. I splitted them up into individual commits, in
> order
> > > to make it easier to push upstream what can be pushed upstream and
> leave
> > > alone what can't be pushed upstream.
> >
> > what's the reason why something can't be pushed upstream?
> >
>
> * intrusive patches that need cleaner rewrites.
>  For example : There's not i18n/libiconv/gettext on Android. Therefore
> we need to deactivate that everywhere in the modules we're using
> (glib/liboil/gst*).. but currently it uses non-standard #ifdef ANDROID.
> We should transform that into a clean way to disable i18n support for
> all those modules.
>
> * Android specific defaults.
>  For example : We can use fbdevsink on the G1... but the default sink
> isn't the same as on unix. We could split that up in one upstream patch
> that makes it more modular to compile in a different default, and one
> patch (a one-liner non-upstream patch) that defines the default fb
> device on android.
>
>
> * Android-specific Makefiles and auto-generated files
>  Android doesn't use the standard autotools build system, but has it's
> own build system. That means that we have to store files that are
> normally generated at configure time (config.h, *.in) or compile time
> (*-enum.[ch], gst parser (uses flex/bison), ...) and have Android.mk
> makefiles in all the correct directories.
>  This is in fact a similar issue that was Zaheer has with the S60 port,
> and very close to what we do for the win32 builds.
>  We need to find a clean/unified way to solve this for all
> non-autotools build systems/architectures. One could be switching away
> from autotools and using CMake (which can create Makefiles for various
> systems).
>
>  Edward
>
>
>
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