gstreamer integration in Windows app - DLL dependencies on different PCs

[MK]

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I'm already using both current MSVC
32-bit packages. They're installed at the default location under
C:\gstreamer. To deploy 'my' DLL, I threw the necessary gstreamer DLLs
into the same folder and copied the whole parent directory to another PC.


Am 22.03.22 um 16:26 schrieb David Ing:
> I don't know what might be causing this, but you might save yourself
> some time by skipping the build and using the MSVC installers to get
> the build artifacts.  (The MSVC is less buggy than the MinGW.)
>
> What I do is I install the "runtime installer" and "development
> installer", then I copy the components from C:\gstreamer (or wherever)
> into a portable little "package" that my C++ code can reference.
>
> After you run the installers, check your environment for variable
> names that begin with GST, and your path for anything like
> "C:\gstreamer\...", and purge all of that.
>
> BTW, my C++ application does a bit of environmental housekeeping just
> before I initialize gstreamer (with gst_init).  I'm not sure if this
> stuff is necessary but it works for us.
>
>              //This is where the plugins live. boost::filesystem::path pluginFolder=  assemblyFolder/ "plugins"; //WARNING: setting an environment variable is only safe
> at the beginning of the program (before any //other threads have been
> spun up). We do this to maintain strict control over the components
> that //we are using. const char*  priorGstPluginPath= g_getenv("GST_PLUGIN_PATH"); std::string gstPluginPath= string::unwiden(pluginFolder.string()); if (priorGstPluginPath&& (0!= priorGstPluginPath[0])) {                  gstPluginPath=  gstPluginPath+  PATHS_SEP_STR+  priorGstPluginPath; } g_unsetenv("GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH_1_0");
> g_unsetenv("GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH");
> g_unsetenv("GST_PLUGIN_PATH_1_0"); #if ARCH_32_BIT              g_unsetenv("GSTREAMER_ROOT_X86");
>              g_unsetenv("GSTREAMER_ROOT_MSVC_X86");
> g_setenv("GSTREAMER_1_0_ROOT_X86",
> string::unwiden(assemblyFolder.string()).c_str(), true);
> g_setenv("GSTREAMER_1_0_ROOT_MSVC_X86",
> string::unwiden(assemblyFolder.string()).c_str(), true); #elif  ARCH_64_BIT
>              g_unsetenv("GSTREAMER_ROOT_X86_64");
> g_unsetenv("GSTREAMER_ROOT_MSVC_X86_64");
> g_setenv("GSTREAMER_1_0_ROOT_X86_64",
> string::unwiden(assemblyFolder.string()).c_str(), true);
> g_setenv("GSTREAMER_1_0_ROOT_MSVC_X86_64",
> string::unwiden(assemblyFolder.string()).c_str(), true); #else #error
> "Unknown architecture (32-bit vs. 64-bit)" #endif
> g_setenv("GST_PLUGIN_PATH", gstPluginPath.c_str(), true); #if
> BOOST_OS_WINDOWS              // The nuget package provides some modules that are needed to enable some fancy network encryption stuff, but
>              //I have only seen it available on Windows. Perhaps it is not required
> on Linux. We only need it on Windows //because it enables a feature
> that enables WebRTC in our Windows client aplications. boost::filesystem::path gioModuleFolder=  assemblyFolder/ "gio_modules"; std::string gioModuleFolderString= string::unwiden(gioModuleFolder.string());
> g_setenv("GIO_MODULE_DIR", gioModuleFolderString.c_str(), true); #endif
>
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 4:52 AM MK via gstreamer-devel
> <gstreamer-devel at lists.freedesktop.org> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     I've written a DLL plugin for a 3rd party application which initially
>     only used libjpeg for motion JPEG support. I used a VisualStudio
>     (2017)
>     template which the 3rd party supplier provides as starting point. That
>     worked fine.
>
>     To be able to support other stream formats, I switched to gstreamer
>     instead of libjpeg. I can build the plugin and it works fine on the PC
>     where it was compiled (let's call it PC1). When I copy all the
>     files to
>     another PC (PC2), the 3rd party application fails to load the DLL,
>     because of some missing DLL dependencies. When I compile the
>     project on
>     PC2, it works well on PC2. But the version from PC2 fails on PC1.
>
>     I checked the dependencies with 'Dependencies' and noticed that on PC1
>     the missing DLLs differ from the missing DLLs on PC2. But even the
>     required DLLs differ from PC1 to PC2.
>
>     Does anyone have an idea what could cause this behavior?
>
>     Best regards,
>     Michael
>
>     PS: both versions do not run on PC3.
>
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