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

[Andoni Morales]

2009/3/25 Stefan Kost <ensonic at hora-obscura.de>:
> 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.

Not directly, but in macports gst-plugins-bad depends on gnomevfs,
which depends on gconf, and this last depends on gtk. So, by removing
the  gnomevfs dependency from the gst-plugins-bad Portfiles, you are
reducing the dependencies tree.
>
>>
>>>> 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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