Development of GStreamer on Windows?

[Nirbheek Chauhan]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Pavel Bludov <p.bludov at altergeo.ru> 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 think you've missed our latest efforts w.r.t. porting GStreamer to
Meson[1] which enables us to build on Windows with MinGW, MSVC 2010,
2013, and 2015. However, we officially only support building with MSVC
2015 with the Meson build files.

1. http://blog.nirbheek.in/2016/07/building-and-developing-gstreamer-using.html

The build files will be in the 1.10 release (only in the git repos for
now), and the Cerbero bits will be merged in the next cycle.

The previous conversation was about making the core of GStreamer
buildable on Windows without Cerbero (and hence Autotools/MinGW) at
all.

As for MinGW/GCC, we would like to upgrade our toolchain but no one
has gotten around to it yet. If you would like to work on that, we'd
be happy to help and accept your work into Cerbero. :)

-- 
~Nirbheek Chauhan