Building Gstreamer on Windows 8 via cerbero

Sebastian Dröge slomo at coaxion.net
Wed Oct 16 11:10:56 CEST 2013


On Mi, 2013-10-16 at 00:43 -0700, Gazoo wrote:
> Hey Guys,
> 
> I'm hoping to ask the occasional stupid question while trying to compile my
> own version of GStreamer using Cerbero (which I keep wanting to write as
> Cerebro). I'm doing this in order to get at the gst-plugin-gl! Following
> this guide here:
> 
> http://docs.gstreamer.com/display/GstSDK/Building+from+source+using+Cerbero
> 
> I've run into a spot of 'trubz'. When trying to run the build from my
> checked out git repo (using the cerebro-uninstalled boostrap command), I get
> the following error:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./cerbero-uninstalled", line 8, in <module>
>     from cerbero.main import main
>   File ".\cerbero\main.py", line 34, in <module>
>     from cerbero import config, commands
>   File ".\cerbero\config.py", line 25, in <module>
>     from cerbero.utils import _, system_info, validate_packager,
> to_unixpath,\
>   File ".\cerbero\utils\shell.py", line 41, in <module>
>     PLATFORM = system_info()[0]
>   File ".\cerbero\utils\__init__.py", line 194, in system_info
>     raise FatalError("Windows version '%s' not supported" % win32_ver)
> cerbero.errors.FatalError: Fatal Error: Windows version '8' not supported
> 
> I'd say the error is accurate, but am I truly boned? Can I not compile
> GStreamer on Windows 8?

Check cerbero/enums.py :) Just add Windows 8 there and also in
cerbero/utils/__init__.py from where this error comes.

I tested it some months ago and it was working just fine back then.
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