Problems building QtGStreamer release build on Windows

Fri Dec 14 03:45:52 PST 2012

Yes, I just ran examples/player and it played an mp4 video file.

Chris.

On 14 December 2012 11:33, Ola Røer Thorsen <ola at silentwings.no> wrote:
> Thanks, Andoni.
>
> I tried adding the property sheet to the INSTALL project in VS 2010, and
> recompiled. Now I get lots of compiler errors instead:
>
> 21>c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 10.0\VC\include\iosfwd(19): error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before
> identifier 'streamoff'
> 21>c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 10.0\VC\include\iosfwd(19): error C4430: missing type specifier - int
> assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int
> 21>c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 10.0\VC\include\iosfwd(19): error C4430: missing type specifier - int
> assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int
> 21>c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 10.0\VC\include\iosfwd(28): error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before
> 'const'
> 21>c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 10.0\VC\include\iosfwd(28): error C4430: missing type specifier - int
> assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int
> 21>c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 10.0\VC\include\iosfwd(28): error C4430: missing type specifier - int
> assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int
> 21>c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 10.0\VC\include\iosfwd(28): error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before
> identifier '_BADOFF'
> 21>c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 10.0\VC\include\iosfwd(28): error C2373: 'std::streamoff' : redefinition;
> different type modifiers
> 21>          c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 10.0\VC\include\iosfwd(19) : see declaration of 'std::streamoff'
>
> Etc etc etc. Any idea what's going wrong this time?
>
> Chris, are you able to run the example applications in release mode now?
>
> Best regards,
> Ola
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Den 2012-12-14 12:15, skrev Chris Boucher:
>
>> Hi Andoni,
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> QtGStreamer is built using cmake, which I'm far from an expert in, so
>> I'm not sure how best to use the GStreamer SDK property sheet with it.
>> However, I modified the top level CMakeLists.txt as follows:
>>
>> --- CMakeLists.txt (revision 18879)
>> +++ CMakeLists.txt (working copy)
>> @@ -108,6 +108,10 @@
>>       set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -Wall -Wextra
>> -Wformat-security -Wundef -Wpointer-arith -fno-common")
>>   endif ()
>>
>> +if (MSVC)
>> +    set(CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS "/OPT:NOREF")
>> +endif()
>> +
>>   set(LIB_INSTALL_DIR ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib${LIB_SUFFIX} CACHE
>> STRING "Destination directory for libraries")
>>   set(INCLUDES_INSTALL_DIR ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/include/QtGStreamer)
>>
>> and the release DLLs now contain complete import sections. /OPT:NOREF
>> is the default in debug builds, which explains why it worked there.
>>
>> I have to say, I find the CRT fix a little odd and possibly
>> impracticable since I have other libraries I need to link against
>> (including Qt), but that's not relevant to this thread.
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Chris.
>>
>> On 14 December 2012 10:27, Andoni Morales <ylatuya at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Visual Studio, make sure that you use the property sheets included
>>> in the GStreamer SDK as explained in "Remove the dependency with the
>>> Visual Studio runtime" here:
>>>   include the property sheets:
>>> http://docs.gstreamer.com/display/GstSDK/Installing+on+Windows
>>>
>>> Apart from linking to the same CRT used by the DLL's built with
>>> GStreamer, it will also set the the linker option
>>> OptimizeReferences=False, which will fix your issue in the Release
>>> build:
>>>
>>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer-sdk/cerbero/tree/data/vs/msvc/common.props#n15
>>>
>>> I will update the bug report.
>>>
>>> 2012/12/14 Ola Røer Thorsen <ola at silentwings.no>:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Chris,
>>>>
>>>> I'm having the exact same problems as you, using visual studio 2010. I
>>>> reported this on the bugtracker too, btw.
>>>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686272 but it seems we're the
>>>> unlucky ones.
>>>>
>>>> If you figure it out, please let me know :-)
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Ola
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2012/12/13 Chris Boucher <chris at thebouchers.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Dinesh,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for confirming that your import tables are correct.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm going to try VS2010...
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Chris.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 13 December 2012 16:07, Dinesh Kumar <dineshkpadmanaban at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Chris,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for correcting me.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have just now checked my QtGlib.dll. I have my import table correct.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My last suggestion is
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Clean the existing build.
>>>>>> - cmake -G "Visual Studio 8 2005" <other stuffs>
>>>>>>    - cmake --build . --target install --config Release.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>> Dinesh P
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Chris Boucher <chris at thebouchers.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Dinesh,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The QtGStreamer release build isn't producing the gstreamer dlls, but
>>>>>>> it is linking to them.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The QtGStreamer dlls are linked against the gstreamer ones, which
>>>>>>> results in QtGStreamer dlls having an import section listing the
>>>>>>> gstreamer dlls and functions required.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If you run "dumpbin /imports QtGlib.dll" (for example) you should see
>>>>>>> sections for libgobject-2.0-0.dll and libglib-2.0-0.dll.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In my debug build these sections also list the functions required. In
>>>>>>> my release build, the sections exist, but there are no functions
>>>>>>> listed.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>> Chris.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 13 December 2012 15:04, Dinesh Kumar <dineshkpadmanaban at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> You  mean the relase build is producing dlls with empty import
>>>>>>>> tables
>>>>>>>> for
>>>>>>>> gstreamer dlls or QtGstreamer dlls?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I am still wondering, why the QtGstreamer release build is producing
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> gstreamer dlls?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>>>> Dinesh P
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Chris Boucher
>>>>>>>> <chris at thebouchers.com>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> gstreamer dlls.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
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