Newbie trying to set up windows gstreamer build environment

[Dan Kegel]

Hi!
I've built recent gstreamer on linux and mac, and now I'd like to do
it on windows (64 bit win 10).

Ideally, I'd like to do it with Visual C++'s commandline tools and
ninja :-) but I'll do it with whatever's easiest.

Looking at https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/installing/building-from-source-using-cerbero.html
it recommends "Msys/MinGW (Install it with all the options enabled)"
and links to https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/
Well, ok, that offers an "Installer", so I downloaded and ran
https://astuteinternet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/mingw/Installer/mingw-get-setup.exe
and used its 'list' verb... but didn't see any 64 bit tools.  I tried
using it to
install gcc, but building hello world yielded a 32 bit program. -m64
didn't help.

Looking at https://mingw-w64.org/doku.php/download I see that the only
distribution that seems to come with modern gcc is msys2, so
I went to https://mingw-w64.org/doku.php/download/msys2
(which just linked to http://www.msys2.org/ ) and
tried that out.  I was able to install the environment, but not gcc.

Is it me, or is the doc on how to get a cerbero gstreamer build
environment on windows a little incomplete?

Thanks,
Dan


On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 9:23 PM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> Hi!
> I've built recent gstreamer on linux and mac, and now I'd like to do
> it on windows.
>
> Ideally, I'd like to do it with Visual C++'s commandline tools and ninja :-)
>
> But
>
>
> Looking around, I fou