Development of GStreamer on Windows?

[Scott D Phillips]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 09:30:16AM -0300, Thibault Saunier wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Nevermind me, I just needed to use PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR.
> Keeping you posted about the windows setup script.

Hmm, I didn't need to do anything special with pkg-config env
vars, just needed to get pkg-config itself in the PATH. Maybe you
installed the msys2 pkg-config instead of the mingw64 one?

I recently had occasion to set up a new machine and kept track of
the exact steps I performed as I did:

http://scott.ph/gst-build-msvc.md

> 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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