Development of GStreamer on Windows?

[Thibault Saunier]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 4:33 PM, Scott D Phillips
<scott.d.phillips at intel.com> wrote:
> 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?

Indeed I noticed afterward that I had pkg-config installed instead of
mingw-pkg-config which caused that issue (not sure why it did but well
:)).

> 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

Nice, thanks.

>
>> 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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