RELEASE: GStreamer Core and Plugins 1.2.0

[Sebastian Dröge]

On Fr, 2013-10-18 at 11:17 +0900, Lasse Laursen wrote:
>
> Applying patch 
> C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/Lasse/cerbero/cerbero/recipes/gettext/0001-Fix-linker-error-redefinition-of-vasprintf.patch
> Running command 'patch -p1 -f -i 
> C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/Lasse/cerbero/cerbero/recipes/gettext/0001-Fix-linker-error-redefinition-of-vasprintf.patch'
>        0 [main] patch 9204 handle_exceptions: Exception: 
> STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
>      663 [main] patch 9204 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to 
> patch.exe.stackdump
> ***** Error running 'bootstrap' command:
> Recipe 'gettext' failed at the build step 'extract'
> 
> Yay for 1 step forward, 2 steps back. The 'patch.exe' from git 
> apparently gives up the ghost. I'm guessing this is not a good thing. 
> The only idea I've got rattling around in my head is trying to install 
> an earlier version of 'Git for Windows' and hope for the best? At first 
> I thought I might have botched my MinGW/Msys installation, so I wiped it 
> clean and reinstalled it all. Same result. I took a look at the 
> stackdump, but it mainly consists of memory address references, which I 
> doubt would be useful for anyone here.

That sounds like your Windows has multiple versions of the same library
in $PATH, some being incompatible... and that then causing various
applications to explode. The good old Windows DLL hell :(

Could you check what's in your $PATH and if there are conflicting
things?

> Assuming I get this matter resolved somehow - I thought I might as well 
> ask my 2nd question. You mention creating a configuration file that has 
> a prefix set pointing to my current GStreamer binaries. Could you point 
> me to an example file or something? I have no idea how such a 
> configuration file might look :o

Take a look at the documentation link I've put in my last mail :)
There's a section about exactly what you try to do.
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