Newbie - compiling GStreamer

[David Röthlisberger]

On 26 Nov 2012, at 17:34, David Röthlisberger wrote:
> On 26 Nov 2012, at 16:45, Ian Davidson wrote:
>> 
>> I have installed
>> 	• gstreamer 0.10.36-1.fc17
>> 	• gstreamer-devel 0.10.36-1.fc17
>> 	• gstreamer-devel-docs 0.10.36-1.fc17
>> 	• gstreamer-plugins-bad-free 0.10.23-8.fc17
>> 	• gstreamer-plugins-base 0.10.36-2.fc17
>> 	• gstreamer-plugins-good 0.10.31-4.fc17
>> 	• gstreamer-tools 0.10.36-1.fc17
>> 
>> I have copied the helloworld.c program from the GStreamer Application Development Manual (1.0.3) - but it does not compile.  I get
>> [ian at Sound GSTstuff]$ gcc -Wall helloworld.c -o helloworld $(pkg-config --cflags --libs gstreamer-1.0)
>> Package gstreamer-1.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
>> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gstreamer-1.0.pc'
>> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
>> No package 'gstreamer-1.0' found
>> helloworld.c:1:21: fatal error: gst/gst.h: No such file or directory
>> compilation terminated.
>> 
>> I cannot locate a file called gstreasmer-1.0.pc.  Evidently, something has gone wrong with my installation process.  Please could someone suggest what I might have missed.
> 
> You've installed gstreamer 0.10 packages but you're asking pkg-config for gstreamer-1.0.

P.S. The Application Development Manual for GStreamer 0.10 is (for now, at least) at http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/stable/manual/html/index.html
-- you might have better luck with that. :-)