Using MinGW thru Cygwin to compile Gstreamer

Ashwini Sharma ak.ashwini at gmail.com
Fri Jul 29 06:15:55 PDT 2011


In MSYS/MinGW, While configuring gstreamer, I get the error GLib >2.22 is
required.

Whereas I have copied the pre-compiled GLib into the MinGW include and lib
folders.

Any clue on this.... Am I missing something?

Rgds,
Ashwini

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Marko Mikkonen <
mmikkone at mail.student.oulu.fi> wrote:

>  I don't know about Cygwin, but I've been using just MinGW and it's Msys
> prompt. I don't really remember whether libxml2 comes with MinGW, but you
> can check it by browsing to MinGWs include/limxml2 folder. If it exists, you
> should have the library. If it doesn't, you can download the library's
> source and compile it with the usual ./configure / make method.
>
> -Marko
>
> 29.7.2011 7:44, Ashwini Sharma kirjoitti:
>
> Hi All,
>
>  I need to compile gstreamer for windows using MinGW.
>
>  I am using MinGW thru Cygwin, (by exporting the MinGW bin path before
> everything else). It picks up the compiler from the MinGW path well.
>
>  Now when I try to Configure gstreamer I get error "libxml2" not found.
> Whereas I have installed almost all the packages in Cygwin installation.
>
>  Can I use the packages installed in cygwin to compile gstreamer using
> MinGW in Cygwin? Or Do I have to use MinGW separately?
>
>  Is there some help/guide which I can refer for my task.
>
>  Any help is appreciated.
>
>  Thanks,
> Ashwini
>
>
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