Using MinGW thru Cygwin to compile Gstreamer

[Vincent Torri]

On Fri, 29 Jul 2011, Ashwini Sharma wrote:

> 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?

be sure that the .pc of glib is installed, and after that :

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/path/to/pcfile

so if glib2.pc is in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig

Note that I recently sucessfully compiled gstreamer and gst-plugins-base 
with MSYS+MinGW

Vincent Torri


>
> 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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