[gst-devel] GSoC proposal: Improving GStreamer on Windows and Mac

[Andoni Morales]

I would like to participate in the Google Summer of Code improving
GStreamer on Windows.

GStreamer is well known multimedia framework in the GNU/Linux world,
but we cannot say the same thing for Windows and Mac. Many developpers
are afraid to use GStreamer on these platforms for a simple reason:
the GStreamer team doesn't provide updated binaries and it's quite
difficult to compile your own GStreamer binaries (at least for
Windows).
My project (www.ylatuya.es) uses GStreamer on Linux, and I wanted to
port it to Windows and Mac. On the Windows side I had to face many
problems... The first one, as I told before, is that there is no
GStreamer binary packages for Windows. So I started thinking about
compiling GStreamer by own and then I faced the other big problem:
creating a build environment to compile all the GStreamer plugins,
including those that has external dependencies.
That's why I decided to start a new project, GStreamer Winbuilds
(http://www.gstreamer-winbuild.ylatuya.es), together with Andres
Colubri, to provide an installer with  functional and updated
GStreamer binary packages, and a build environment for GStreamer. This
project is actually based on OABuild because OAH wasn't ready yet. But
the main question is always the same.. Why do we need OABuild or OAH?
Because getting a complete build environment on Windows is quite
difficult.

My proposal for the GSoC to improve GStreamer in Windows is based on
this points:

   *Create a script to automatize the creation of a build environment
to compile GStreamer on Windows. The goal of this script is to fetch
all the external dependencies that provide pre-compiled binaries and
developers files  (as for GLib, pango, speex, etc...) or build those
that doesn't. This script will also fecth and patch the GStreamer
sources (some plugins needs small fixes to compile under MSVC, for
example)
   *Migrate all the existing Visual Studio projects to codeblocks
which is Free Software and can be used with many C/C++ compilers (GCC,
MSVC, Borland, etc..)
   *Finish the work started with GStreamer WinBuild by adding all the
remaining plugins and create an installer with the whole GStreamer's
plugins set.

I hope you will consider my proposal!!!

Regards,
Andoni Morales