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

[Stefan Kost]

Andoni Morales schrieb:
>> A few comments:
>> don't include Mac in the headline, if you don't plan to cover it :)
>>
> 
> Andrés is actually working on the Mac installer and it would be nice
> to include it in the GSoC project. The problem with macports and
> GStreamer is that some plugins depends on GTK, which adds an important
> overhead when you have to package everything. Our idea is to remove
> these plugins to reduce the size of the final package.

There are no *plugins* that depends on gtk. gtk is only used in tests/examples.

> 
>>> 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.
> 
> The Code::Blocks home page is: http://www.codeblocks.org/
> Julien Isorce is also using this IDE for gst-plugins-gl

looks nice.

Stefan
> 
> 
> Andoni
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