Cannot load Matroska Plugin built from source

[Nirbheek Chauhan]

Hi,

It sounds like you didn't copy z.dll to the bin directory. The new plugin
needs that. It can't use z-1.dll

On Tue, 27 Sept, 2022, 21:47 Jon Lovewell via gstreamer-devel, <
gstreamer-devel at lists.freedesktop.org> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
>
>
> I have built the matroska plugin from source, using the 1.20.3 branch with
> meson and the msvc toolchain.  When I replace the actual matroska dll
> included as part of the 1.20.3 msvc binaries and then run gst-inspect it
> reports the following
>
>
>
> (gst-inspect-1.0:17092): GStreamer-WARNING **: 15:44:18.959: Failed to
> load plugin 'path\to\gstmatroska.dll': The specified module could not be
> found.
>
> This usually means Windows was unable to find a DLL dependency of the
> plugin. Please check that PATH is correct.
>
> You can run 'dumpbin -dependents' (provided by the Visual Studio developer
> prompt) to list the DLL deps of any DLL.
>
> There are also some third-party GUIs to list and debug DLL dependencies
> recursively.
>
> No such element or plugin 'matroska'
>
>
>
> I have also built the pango dll in the same way and when I replaced that
> and did the same thing the details of the plugin were reported correctly.
>
>
>
> One thing that I have noticed is that the dll built from source can be
> inspected by the version of gst-inspect also built from the source.
> Similarly, if I replace the dll built from source with that included by the
> installer and then use gst-inspect built from source then I get the same
> error as shown above.
>
>
>
> My hunch is that it is something to do with matroska’s dependency on the z
> and possibly bz2 dll’s.
>
> Installed version has the following dll’s
>
> z-1.dll
>
> bz2.dll
>
> gstbz2.dll
>
>
>
> When built from source I only have the following dll
>
>                z.dll
>
>
>
> I wonder if anyone can shed any light on what I am doing wrong or what
> else I need to do when building matroska.
>
>
>
> Many Thanks
>
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