How does GStreamer load static plugins?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 03/06/13 20:35, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>[...]
> Ah, thanks.  I forgot that there's GStreamer 1.0 now.  I do have 0.10.36
> installed, from here:
>
>    http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer
>
> I've now cloned the Git repo
> (git://anongit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer) and switched to the
> 0.10 branch.  The GST_PLUGIN_STATIC* macros aren't there either.  I was
> hoping the get the patches from there.

I see that there's another Git repo:

   anongit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer-sdk

I tried to clone from there, but the repo seems broken:

   $ git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer-sdk/gstreamer
   Cloning into 'gstreamer'...
   remote: Counting objects: 115494, done.
   remote: Compressing objects: 100% (26734/26734), done.
   remote: Total 115494 (delta 90452), reused 112873 (delta 87988)
   Receiving objects: 100% (115494/115494), 26.30 MiB | 1.05 MiB/s, done.
   Resolving deltas: 100% (90452/90452), done.
   warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.