hardcoded paths in macOS GStreamer

[John Cortell]

Found that what I need to do is all nicely documented:
https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/deploying/mac-osx.html

Now to see if I can make it work...

John

On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 4:49 PM John Cortell <john.cortell at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, I had read that there had been a fix to the macOS build so that the
> distribution would work from any location. But it seems GStreamer 1.16 (the
> latest) still expects things to be in the default installation location.
>
> As you can see below, If I rename the directory where GStreamer is
> installed, things don't work:
> $ cd /Library/Frameworks $ GStreamer.framework/Commands/gst-play-1.0
> some.mp3
>
> <this works fine>
>
> $ sudo mv GStreamer.framework GStreamer.framework.backup
>
> $ GStreamer.framework.backup/Commands/gst-play-1.0 some.mp3
>
> dyld: Library not loaded: /Library/Frameworks/GStreamer.framework
> /Versions/1.0/lib/libgstpbutils-1.0.0.dylib
>
>  Referenced from:
> /Library/Frameworks/GStreamer.framework.backup/Commands/gst-play-1.0
>
>  Reason: image not found
>
> Trace/BPT trap: 5
>
> I was planning to redistribute GStreamer with my application, but this
> will prevent me from doing that.
>
> Any advice/insight?
> John
>
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