HOWTO compile GStreamer applications on Windows?

[Sergei Vorobyov]

The GStreamer Wiki offers the link "GStreamer Windows MingW build bot" to

"GStreamer Win32 builds - get the latest GStreamer binaries for Windows"

However, even running

gst-launch-0.10 --version

(both in MinGW and Windows CMD) displays the error:

"The procedure entry point libintl_setlocale could not be located in
the dynamic link library intl.dll"

That's a fair message, the c:\WINDOWS\system32\intl.dll library has no
such entry point.

libintl_setlocale does exist in <installation path>/bin/libintl-8.dll

But if you copy the latter one in the current directory under the name intl.dll

other unresolved entry points pop up, and the process never converges.

Can anyone please provide instructions on how to use those binaries,

or maybe other recipes to (cross)compile GStreamer applications on Windows?

I tried many different methods (OSSBuild, MXE Cross compiling, MinGW,
...) suggested on this mailing list and all of them failed.

What is the up-to-date reliable method of building GStreamer
applications (written in C) on Windows?

Thanks!