Development of GStreamer on Windows?

[Thibault Saunier]

Hey,

Nevermind me, I just needed to use PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR. Keeping you
posted about the windows setup script.

Thibault

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 8:54 PM, Thibault Saunier <tsaunier at gnome.org> wrote:
> Hello Scott,
>
> Thanks for figuring all that out! I gave your instructions a try but I
> think you are missing a step to get the pkg-file point to a place that
> msvc understand for the -I as they point to /mingw64/include/XXX but
> that does not work, can you remember what you do? What am I missing?
> :)
>
> I am also coming up with a simple script to do that all in one step.
>
> Thanks
>
> Thibault
>
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Scott D Phillips
> <scott.d.phillips at intel.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 07:04:13PM +0800, Pavel Bludov wrote:
>>> 31.10.2016 06:32, Nirbheek Chauhan пишет:
>>> > I think we can get it working with pure MSVC with a little
>>> > work.
>>> >
>>>
>>> Could you, please, make it less archaic?
>>>
>>> For now, GStreamer binaries for Windows are built with mingw-4.7
>>> or msvc-2010.  Both of them are more then five years old.
>>> Everyone, who wants to use GStreamer _and_ Qt, are stuck with Qt
>>> 5.0 (mingw) or Qt 5.5 (msvc).  While the  msvc binaries are
>>> quite usable, the mingw binaries aren't, since Qt 5.0 lacks many
>>> modules.
>>>
>>> It would be great to upgrade the toolchain to something more
>>> modern.
>>
>> I was able to use gst-build with msvc from visual studio 2015,
>> using binaries from msys2 for the dependencies. I don't have my
>> windows machine on hand to write up the full list of steps, but
>> it's something like:
>>
>> 1. Install python and add it to PATH
>> 2. Install git and add it to PATH
>> 3. Download ninja-build and add it to PATH
>> 4. Install msys2
>> 5. Install dependencies in msys2. You want the packages whose
>> names start with mingw-w64-x86_64- when those are present. You
>> want glib, libxml2, pkg-config, bison, possibly some others.
>> 6. Run this python script to make link.exe compatible versions of
>> the mingw64 import libraries:
>>
>> https://github.com/scott-d-phillips/mingw_make_libs/blob/master/make_libs.py
>>
>> 7. Open a "Native x64 tools" command prompt from visual studio.
>> 8. Append ;C:\msys64\mingw64\bin;C:\msys64\usr\bin to PATH
>> 9. git clone gst-build
>> 10. git clone meson inside the gst-build directory
>> 11. run:
>>
>>  py setup
>>
>>  ninja -C build
>>
>> And then you should have gstreamer built with msvc. You can use
>> the gst-uninstalled script to set up most of the environment, but
>> you will need to make an additional directory under build called
>> `dlls` or something, copy all the built .dll files there and add
>> it to PATH. Also you might need to move the C:\msys64 directories
>> from the end of PATH to the front at this point, I had a
>> conflicting version of zlib1.dll from some other directory in the
>> middle of my PATH.
>>
>> It's a bit rough but with a little effort I think building with
>> msvc will be super easy with meson.
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