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

[Andoni Morales]

2009/3/25 Julien Isorce <julien.isorce at gmail.com>

> Hi,
>
> 2009/3/25 Andoni Morales <ylatuya at gmail.com>
>
> >> please add a link to codeblocks.
>> >
>> > The Code::Blocks home page is: http://www.codeblocks.org/
>> > Julien Isorce is also using this IDE for gst-plugins-gl
>> >
>>  I forgot to mention that Code::Blocks can also be used to compile
>> GStreamer in Mac OS X and to cross-compile GStreamer in Linux
>
>
> I like codeblocks but the best choice is to use CMake. (
> http://www.cmake.org/ )
> It's the most easiest, usable, viable, extensible etc... build system
> known.
> Qt and KDE are using it now.
> CMake can generate codeblocks projects and more.
>
> CMake is cross platform. It can generate those things:
>
> Unix Makefiles  = Generates standard UNIX makefiles.
> CodeBlocks - Unix Makefiles = Generates CodeBlocks project files.
> Eclipse CDT4 - Unix Makefiles = Generates Eclipse CDT 4.0 project files.
> KDevelop3 = Generates KDevelop 3 project files.
> KDevelop3 - Unix Makefiles  = Generates KDevelop 3 project files.
> Borland Makefiles  = Generates Borland makefiles.
> MSYS Makefiles   = Generates MSYS makefiles.
> MinGW Makefiles  = Generates a make file for use with mingw32-make.
> NMake Makefiles   = Generates NMake makefiles.
> Unix Makefiles  = Generates standard UNIX makefiles.
> Visual Studio 6  = Generates Visual Studio 6 project files.
> Visual Studio 7   = Generates Visual Studio .NET 2002 project files.
> Visual Studio 7 .NET 2003 = Generates Visual Studio .NET 2003 projectfiles.
> Visual Studio 8 2005  = Generates Visual Studio .NET 2005 project files.
> Visual Studio 8 2005 Win64  = Generates Visual Studio .NET 2005 Win64
> project files.
> Visual Studio 9 2008  = Generates Visual Studio 9 2008 project files.
> Visual Studio 9 2008 Win64  = Generates Visual Studio 9 2008 Win64 project
> files.
> Watcom WMake = Generates Watcom WMake makefiles.
> CodeBlocks - MinGW Makefiles= Generates CodeBlocks project files.
> CodeBlocks - Unix Makefiles = Generates CodeBlocks project files.
> Eclipse CDT4 - MinGW Makefiles = Generates Eclipse CDT 4.0 project files.
> Eclipse CDT4 - NMake Makefiles = Generates Eclipse CDT 4.0 project files.
> Eclipse CDT4 - Unix Makefiles = Generates Eclipse CDT 4.0 project files.
>
> CMake can also generate XCode projects, and "darwin makefiles" but I have
> no Mac machine to copy/past the output of cmake --help.
>
> I am also using it in gst-plugins-gl. So I can help.
>
> Moreover, CMake can generate installers [?]
>

So CMake seems to be the best choice!


>
> Windows is so horrible when a project is big and has a lot of dependencies.
> (as a lot of projects are).
> Every software on windows comes with their own glib/qt/png/etc... dlls.
> It's just like anarchy.
> MSYS thought to be the solution of this but still unix mind in this.
>
>
Windows just need a packaging tool ( like apt) and "depo" servers. And
> because it's on windows, this tool would be GUI only [?].
>

> We could start a such project.
> Anyway it's an other subject.
>

 Deploying a Free Software app on Windows is worst than hell. As this
packaging tool doesn't exist yet, the best approach is to use a script to
fetch all the dependencies.

Andoni


>
>
> CMake power !
>
> gl & hf
>
> Julien
>
>
>> Andoni
>>
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