gst-build 1.14 on Ubuntu 16.04 isn't working for me

[David Ing]

That was a good suggestion Carl but it didn't work.  I still get:

subprojects/gstreamer/gst/meson.build:272:4: ERROR:  gobject-introspection
dependency was not found, gir cannot be generated.


This time around I did not need to copy stuff around the `subprojects`
folder.  Presumably, the libraries that I installed (in the instructions
below) got me around that part.'

BTW:  This markdown represents everything that I have done on my machine
(starting from a brand new Linux system).

# Linux Mint Cinnamon Tara
Starting from a fresh install.

## Edit `~/.bashrc`
Put this at the bottom of the file.
```
# This is where pip3 installs `--user` executables (such as meson)
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin
```

Restart the terminal.

## Install stuff
```
sudo apt update
sudo apt install --yes git python-pip python3-pip ninja-build
build-essential snapd slack libmount-dev libselinux-dev
gobject-introspection libglib2.0-dev
pip3 install setuptools wheel
pip3 install --user meson
```

## Clone and run `gst-build`

```
mkdir -p ~/github/gstreamer
cd ~/github/gstreamer
git clone https://github.com/GStreamer/gst-build.git -b 1.14
cd gst-build
mkdir build

# the following command fails:
meson build

# the following command is never executed because the prior command failed.
ninja -c build/
```


On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 3:26 PM carl hansen <carlhansen1234 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> >subprojects/gstreamer/gst/meson.build:272:4: ERROR:
> gobject-introspection dependency was not found, gir cannot be generated.
>
> >But I just installed the gobject-introspection package.
>
> >I made sure to close the terminal and re-open it (in case I needed some
> new environment variables from the package install) but it didn't help.On
> Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 8:55 AM David Ing <ding at panopto.com> wrote:
>
> Just a guess: go back to the beginning with the
> gstreamer-1.14.2.tar.xz file.  You might have some meson-created files
> that weren't updated, in your previous retry.
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