Questions about MSVC build

[Nirbheek Chauhan]

In addition, fdsrc/fdsink are not available with MSVC because they use
APIs that are only available with MinGW. filesrc/filesink are still
available with MSVC.

Cheers,
Nirbheek

On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 3:55 AM Mathieu Duponchelle
<mathieu at centricular.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/20/19 12:10 AM, David Ing wrote:
>
> > What things have you noticed to be missing? The MSVC build is almost
> >  entirely feature-complete. Note that the DLL naming is different in
> >  the MSVC build, as noted on the download page. Instead of libfoo.dll
> >  everything built with MSVC is foo.dll instead.
>
> I stand corrected.  I had an inventory script which apparently chokes because the filenames have changed.
>
> When I inventoried the gstreamer elements using `gst-inspect-1.0` I only noticed a minor difference in the plugin names for two gstreamer elements.
>
> filesink <--> fdsink
> filesrc <--> fdsrc
>
> Followup question:  Why did the name of these two gstreamer elements change?
>
>
> These are not the same elements
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