<div dir="ltr"><div>That was a good suggestion Carl but it didn't work. I still get:</div><div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">subprojects/gstreamer/gst/</span><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">meson.build:272:4: ERROR: gobject-introspection dependency was not found, gir cannot be generated.</span><br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><div>This time around I did not need to copy stuff around the `subprojects` folder. Presumably, the libraries that I installed (in the instructions below) got me around that part.'</div><div><br></div><div>BTW: This markdown represents everything that I have done on my machine (starting from a brand new Linux system).</div><div><br></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"># Linux Mint Cinnamon Tara</font></div></div></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">Starting from a fresh install.</font></div></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><br></font></div></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">## Edit `~/.bashrc`</font></div></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">Put this at the bottom of the file.</font></div></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">```</font></div></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"># This is where pip3 installs `--user` executables (such as meson)</font></div></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin</font></div></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">```</font></div></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><br></font></div></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">Restart the terminal.</font></div></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><br></font></div></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">## Install stuff</font></div></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">```</font></div></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">sudo apt update</font></div></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">sudo apt install --yes git python-pip python3-pip ninja-build build-essential snapd slack libmount-dev libselinux-dev gobject-introspection libglib2.0-dev</font></div></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">pip3 install setuptools wheel</font></div></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">pip3 install --user meson</font></div></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">```</font></div></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><br></font></div></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">## Clone and run `gst-build`</font></div></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><br></font></div></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">```</font></div></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">mkdir -p ~/github/gstreamer</font></div></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">cd ~/github/gstreamer</font></div></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">git clone <a href="https://github.com/GStreamer/gst-build.git">https://github.com/GStreamer/gst-build.git</a> -b 1.14</font></div></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">cd gst-build</font></div></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">mkdir build</font></div></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><br></font></div></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"># the following command fails:</font></div></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">meson build</font></div></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><br></font></div></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"># the following command is never executed because the prior command failed.</font></div></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">ninja -c build/</font></div></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">```</font></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 3:26 PM carl hansen <<a href="mailto:carlhansen1234@gmail.com">carlhansen1234@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">>subprojects/gstreamer/gst/meson.build:272:4: ERROR: gobject-introspection dependency was not found, gir cannot be generated.<br>
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>But I just installed the gobject-introspection package.<br>
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>I made sure to close the terminal and re-open it (in case I needed some new environment variables from the package install) but it didn't help.On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 8:55 AM David Ing <<a href="mailto:ding@panopto.com" target="_blank">ding@panopto.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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Just a guess: go back to the beginning with the<br>
gstreamer-1.14.2.tar.xz file. You might have some meson-created files<br>
that weren't updated, in your previous retry.<br>
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