building gstreamr from mono repo meson issues

[Nicolas Dufresne]

Le jeudi 21 octobre 2021 à 19:53 +1100, Matthew Waters via gstreamer-devel a
écrit :
> 
> On 21/10/21 17:37, Belisko Marek via gstreamer-devel wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > according documentation on webpage :
> > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer
> > for building gstreamer it is necessary to run following commands:
> > 
> > meson builddir
> > ninja -C builddir
> > 
> > I'm trying to add support for gstreamer to yocto and I hit some issue
> > which are not quite clear to me.
> > 
> > - gstreamer requires meson >= 0.59 (doesn't work with version on
> > Ubuntu 16.04 or 18.04)
> > - when added meson 0.59.1 I'm hitting following issue:
> > 
> >  | DEBUG: Python function extend_recipe_sysroot finished
> > > DEBUG: Executing shell function do_configure
> > > NOTE: Executing meson -Dintrospection=true ...
> 
> You need to update your build scripts (yocto?) to not use
> -Dintrospection=true and as mentioned below, use "enabled", "disabled",
> or "auto", probably "enabled".

p.s. I don't think Yocto will need any update to build from tarballs, as we will
emit the same tarballs as before. You can maintain the git support by simply
building form the right direction (e.g. cd subproject/gstreamer) and then
anything else from upstream Yocto should still work.

> 
> > > The Meson build system
> > > Version: 0.59.1
> > > Source dir: /home/builder/build/tmp/work/cortexa53-crypto-poky-linux/gstreamer/1.0+gitAUTOINC+b4ca58df76-r0/git
> > > Build dir: /home/builder/build/tmp/work/cortexa53-crypto-poky-linux/gstreamer/1.0+gitAUTOINC+b4ca58df76-r0/build
> > > Build type: cross build
> > > 
> > > ../git/meson.build:1:0: ERROR: Value "true" (of type "string") for
> > combo option "Generate gobject-introspection bindings" is not one of
> > the choices. Possible choices are (as string): "enabled", "disabled",
> > "auto".
> > > 
> > > A full log can be found at
> > /home/builder/build/tmp/work/cortexa53-crypto-poky-linux/gstreamer/1.0+gitAUTOINC+b4ca58df76-r0/build/meson-logs/meson-log.txt
> > > ERROR: meson failed
> > 
> > Is meson too new or am I doing something wrong?
> > 
> > Is there some way to cross-compile gstreamer from mono  repo in some
> > docker container or so for experimenting with bleeding edge master?
> > 
> > Thanks and BR,
> > 
> > marek
> > 
>