<html><head></head><body><div>On Wed, 2017-06-21 at 16:14 -0400, Aaron Boxer wrote:</div><div><br></div><div>Hi Aaron,</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>I have a question about how folks set up their dev environment for gstreamer. (...) To build, I run</div><div><br></div><div>make && sudo make install </div><div><br></div><div>then gst-launch to run the code.</div><div><br></div><div>Is it possible to skip the "make install" step before running the modified code ? It does slow down my code - build -test cycle.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sure. You can do</div><div><br></div><div>export GST_PLUGIN_PATH=/home/aaron/build/gst-plugins-bad</div><div><br></div><div>to make GStreamer look for extra plugins there. It will/should then pick up things from your build tree.</div><div><br></div><div>We also have a so-called "uninstalled" setup for dev purposes.</div><div><br></div><div>For the old one based on autotools see <a href="https://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/tree/scripts/create-uninstalled-setup.sh">https://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/tree/scripts/create-uninstalled-setup.sh</a></div><div><br></div><div>For the new one based on Meson, see the gst-build module in git (you can run 'ninja uninstalled' there to get into the uninstalled environment once you've run meson).</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div> -Tim</div><div><br></div><div><span><pre>-- <br></pre><div>Tim Müller, Centricular Ltd - <a href="http://www.centricular.com">http://www.centricular.com</a></div><div data-evo-signature-plain-text-mode=""><br></div><div data-evo-signature-plain-text-mode="">Join us at the GStreamer Conference!</div><div data-evo-signature-plain-text-mode="">21-22 October 2017 in Prague, Czech Republic</div><div data-evo-signature-plain-text-mode=""><a href="http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/conference/">http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/conference/</a></div> </span></div></body></html>