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

[Stefan Kost]

Andoni Morales schrieb:
> 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.
>
>   
A few comments:
don't include Mac in the headline, if you don't plan to cover it :)

> 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)
>   
please file bug for those and attach patches. Maintaining patches as
part of the build procedure should be very intermediate only.
>    *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..)
>   
please add a link to codeblocks.
>    *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
>
>   
Stefan