Clang port of GStreamer 1.12.4 to Android

[Stirling Westrup]

There isn't a public link yet. I was trying to judge if there was
enough interest that I should clean up what I have, create a new
github instance, and upload it.


On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 1:10 AM, Edward Hervey <bilboed at bilboed.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   You forgot to provide a link ?
>
>     Edward
>
> On Thu, 2018-06-07 at 12:56 -0400, Stirling Westrup wrote:
>> As part of our development work on Android, we were forced to
>> cross-compile GStreamer 1.12.4 with clang for Android ARM v7a
>>
>> We now have a set of bash scripts which accomplish this task, in case
>> anyone else is interested.
>>
>> There are several caveats:
>>
>> 1) We've only tested the build scripts on Linux, specifically the
>> OpenSuse and Centos distros, as that's the environments we work in.
>> We
>> don't support either Mac or Windows builds.
>>
>> 2) We don't build everything. In particular, we only ported the
>> minimal set of libraries needed to support all of the elements that
>> we
>> use, but the framework is now in place for adding more libraries.
>>
>> 3) We've only tested cross compiling to ARM7, although it should be
>> relatively easy to change the target.
>>
>> 4) We have custom patches in place to support the conversion. Some
>> fix
>> issues in the libraries, but others are unoffical bug fixes or new
>> features for some of the elements we rely on. You will probably want
>> to strip them out.
>>
>> 5) We only compile down to the individual libraries. Pulling them
>> altogether and linking them with gstreamer_android.c is something we
>> left up to Android Studio, for maximum flexibility, but we can supply
>> our Android.mk file for building the final library.
>>
>> I don't know if these scripts will be of use to anyone else, but it
>> took a few months of development and testing to get them working, so
>> we're willing to release them, with minimal documentation or
>> handholding.
>>
>> So, this is far from a final solution, but if someone needs a
>> quick-and-dirty clang conversion for gstreamer, here it is.
>>



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