building GStreamer as a single shared library

[David Ing]

My information might be out of date (or inaccurate) ... I hope someone will
correct me if I am wrong about any of this.

As of about 1 year ago (around gstreamer version 1.12.4), I think the
Windows binaries were built using cerbero relying on the old auto-tools
build system.  I believe the compiler was gcc and mingw was also involved.
It may have also involved msys2 but my memory is foggy.

The gstreamer project has recently evolved to use a Meson build system
(seeking to replace auto-tools), but last I heard it wasn't working with
MSVC yet.  For example on Linux you would use gst-build which drives the
Meson build.  But some builds (e.g. Windows) may still use the old
auto-tools build system via cerbero.  I believe MSVC is on the roadmap for
the Meson build (and for gst-build) but I haven't heard whether it is
working yet.

The last time I tried to build the Windows binaries using cerbero (around
gstreamer version 1.12.4) I ran into all kinds of problems and I didn't
have enough time to push through them.  Hopefully those problems have been
fixed by now.

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 8:50 AM Luca Bacci <luca.bacci982 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you very much David and Sebastian!
> Ok, I will use dynamic linking for all plugins and dependencies then, it's
> allright.
>
> A question: are the binaries in the GStreamer MSI installers built with
> MSVC?
>
> Il giorno gio 17 gen 2019 alle ore 17:24 David Ing <ding at panopto.com> ha
> scritto:
>
>> That would be extremely difficult ... I dont recommend it.  At the very
>> least you would need to modify the plugin scanning and loading logic in the
>> code.  There would probably also be lots of little things to change in the
>> code which I cannot predict at this time.
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 17, 2019, 5:51 AM Luca Bacci <luca.bacci982 at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, I want to build GStreamer with all plugins as just one shared
>>> library: a shared library containing core Gstreamer and all elements from
>>> base, good, bad, ugly with all their deps, statically. I only need it for
>>> Windows. I'm using MSYS2. How can I do that?
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>> Luca
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