Dev environment question

Aaron Boxer boxerab at gmail.com
Wed Jun 21 23:15:12 UTC 2017


nevermind :) I see them now.

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 7:14 PM, Aaron Boxer <boxerab at gmail.com> wrote:

> So, where to the bad plugins normally go, when I run make install ?
>
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 4:33 PM, Tim Müller <tim at centricular.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2017-06-21 at 16:14 -0400, Aaron Boxer wrote:
>>
>> Hi Aaron,
>>
>> I have a question about how folks set up their dev environment for
>> gstreamer. (...) To build, I run
>>
>> make && sudo make install
>>
>> then gst-launch to run the code.
>>
>> Is it possible to skip the "make install" step before running the
>> modified code ? It does slow down my code - build -test cycle.
>>
>>
>> Sure. You can do
>>
>> export GST_PLUGIN_PATH=/home/aaron/build/gst-plugins-bad
>>
>> to make GStreamer look for extra plugins there. It will/should then pick
>> up things from your build tree.
>>
>> We also have a so-called "uninstalled" setup for dev purposes.
>>
>> For the old one based on autotools see https://cgit.freedesktop.org/g
>> streamer/gstreamer/tree/scripts/create-uninstalled-setup.sh
>>
>> For the new one based on Meson, see the gst-build module in git (you can
>> run 'ninja uninstalled' there to get into the uninstalled environment once
>> you've run meson).
>>
>> Cheers
>> -Tim
>>
>> --
>>
>> Tim Müller, Centricular Ltd - http://www.centricular.com
>>
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