Misc compilation issues on windows (was: Re: RELEASE: GStreamer Core and Plugins 1.0.5)

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 11:39 +1300, Angelica Perduta wrote:

Hi,

> > That looks like your GLib might be too old. Are you using GLib >= 2.32 ?
> 
> Thanks Tim, well spotted :o)
> 
> I am using the GLib that comes bundled with the latest supported
> version of Gtk+ (because I'm also using Gtk+ in my own project) and
> that is apparently still only version 2.28.8.
> 
> Note: I downloaded glib-2.34.0 and am trying to build that atm, but it
> has run into a range of problems... like not finding zlib1d.lib which
> doesn't seem to be part of zlib. I'm not sure about advancing some
> libraries past their latest supported release in GTK+.

It's not the "latest support release in GTK+", but the *oldest* still
supported release in GTK+. It should not ever be a problem to drop in a
*newer* version of GLib because of the API/ABI stability guarantees.

Besides, Gtk 2.x is no longer "supported" upstream either, so it's all
unsupported really.

Can't help you with the specific issue unfortunately, but people compile
GLib on windows all the time, so I really wouldn't expect there to be
any major issues.

Cheers
 -Tim